HRS §248-4
Counties must send budgets to the legislature before it meets
In years when the legislature has a regular session, each county must give its budget for the current and next fiscal year to the legislature and the finance director at least 20 days before the session starts. The budget must show expected income and spending. The legislature can set the form and require extra details from the last two completed years.
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The statute, as written — Submission of budgets during years legislature meets
In each year in which the legislature meets in regular session, each county shall submit to the legislature and to the director of finance, at least twenty days before the legislature convenes, the budget of the county for the current fiscal year and the next succeeding fiscal year. Such budgets shall show estimated receipts as well as estimated expenditures. The form in which budgets shall be submitted and the itemization thereof may be prescribed by the legislature which may require the inclusion therein of relevant information concerning the last two completed fiscal years.
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