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OACG-84-4 1 (1984-04-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabniu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C 20648 B-209565 APRIL 17, 1984 The Honorable Ralph Reaula IIIIij111 The Honorable Norman Mineta The Honorable Leon F. Panetta The Honorable Ed Bethune 124036 House of Representatives Subject: Biennial Budgeting: Summary of the Major Issues GAO/OACG-84-4 This report is in response to your reauest that GAO study the feasibility and advisability of lengthening the budget cycle to a 2-year period. As part of that study, you reouested that we look at state experience with biennial budgeting; identify work- load and timetable problems that have surfaced in the existing congressional process; and identify alternative ways in which the Congress could implement a biennial budget. The results of our state work (GAO/PAD-83-14) were provided to you by letter dated December 23, 1982. We provided your staff with an analysis of the various biennial budgetina bills, briefed them from time-to- time on biennial budgeting issues, and also provided them with a larger, detailed draft version of this report. In this final re- port, we summarize the major issues. GENERAL APPPOACH We studied the experiences of three states--Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida--to learn how a biennial budget process operates. We chose these states using several criteria, including imple- menting a biennial budget in a variety of ways; debating in the last few years whether biennial budgeting is appropriate; sus- taining a high level of competition for limited resources; and having different annual adjustment mechanisms, to name a few. These states illustrate some of the many ways a biennial budget can be implemented and enabled us to identify those issues raised by the use of a biennial budget. However, the three states do not exhaust the possible ways of managing a biennial budget. Different issues might have emerged had we looked at a different set of states. We concentrated on portions of the state budget processes that bear directly on the problems currently faced in the congressional budget process, such as timing, workload, and budqet estimates. Knowledge of biennial budgeting in the state examples was drawn from interviews with state officials and docu- ment collection and analysis. )q 4 D(974618)

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