2025 Session Last amended: 2023 session

§ 10.44 — Budgets; How Treated

Plain-Language Summary

The budgets of the legislature, constitutional officers, and Minnesota courts must go through the same legislative review process as the budgets of executive agencies. These branches submit their budgets to the appropriate legislative committees for consideration, promoting fairness and oversight across all branches of state government. This ensures that courts and the legislature are accountable for their spending in the same way executive agencies are.

10.44 BUDGETS; HOW TREATED.

Except as provided in section 3.1985, the budgets of the house of representatives, senate, constitutional officers, district courts, court of appeals, and supreme court must be submitted to and considered by the appropriate committees of the legislature in the same manner as the budgets of executive agencies.

History:

1993 c 370 s 5; 2023 c 62 art 2 s 30

History: History: 1993 c 370 s 5; 2023 c 62 art 2 s 30

Practical Notes

This provision is significant for government accountability—no branch of state government can bypass legislative budget review. Citizens, journalists, and advocacy groups can follow legislative hearings to track proposed spending by courts, the legislature itself, and constitutional officers. Budget proposals are available as public information under section 10.45.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes