Section 9:4-a Judicial Branch Budget.
The supreme court, the superior court, and the probate judges shall prepare their own budgets and the budgets of their respective components, which they shall deliver to the chief justice of the supreme court for transmittal to the speaker of the house, the president of the senate, the house finance committee, and the senate finance committee, for review and processing by the legislature according to the same time schedule for budgetary review and analysis required of executive agencies. A copy of said transmittal shall be forwarded to the superior court and probate judges. The judicial branch budgets shall be prepared upon forms and according to procedures prescribed by the commissioner of administrative services. The budget request documents and such additional information as may be requested shall be submitted to the commissioner of administrative services to be included in the governor's budget in the amounts requested, and with such comments as the governor deems appropriate.
Source. 1969, 21:1. 1979, 403:2. 1983, 381:6. 1985, 399:3, I. 1995, 9:2, eff. June 11, 1995.