TCA § 9-4-5202 — Reports of estimated rate of growth of economy — Duties of state funding board

At least once each year, and whenever requested to do so by the commissioner of finance and administration or by the joint request of the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and house of representatives, the state funding board shall secure from the Tennessee econometric model a report of the estimated rate of growth of the state's economy. Such report shall include the major assumptions and the methodology used in arriving at such estimate. Upon receiving the report specified in subsection (a), the state funding board shall make comments relating to the reasonableness of the estimate, including any different estimate the board deems necessary. The board shall also enclose a list identifying state tax revenue sources and nontax revenue sources, approved by the attorney general and reporter. The department of finance and administration shall provide to the board revenue estimates for each source. The department of revenue shall provide to the board estimates of growth in franchise and excise tax revenue and include in the estimates a description of whether the growth is nonrecurring or recurring. In the event data from Tennessee econometric model is unavailable, the funding board, after consulting with the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and house of representatives, shall obtain and/or prepare a report of the estimated rate of growth of the state's economy. The reports specified in subsections (a), (b) and (c) shall be forwarded to the commissioner of finance and administration and to each member of the general assembly, after review and definitive comment by the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and house of representatives. In November of each year, the state funding board shall conduct public hearings to develop estimates of state revenue for the upcoming fiscal year, as well as any revisions to the current fiscal year estimates, as the board deems appropriate. All estimates shall be adopted by a majority vote of the entire board. The funding board shall request economic forecasts and revenue estimates from representatives of state higher education institution business centers located in each of the grand divisions and such other groups or persons as the funding board deems appropriate. On December 1, or as soon thereafter as practical, the funding board shall present its state revenue estimates, together with a summary of the economic forecast upon which the estimates are based, to the governor and the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and house of representatives. If, in the opinion of the funding board, circumstances warrant a review of state revenue estimates it has previously presented, or upon a request of the chairs, the funding board shall consider information it deems necessary and appropriate and may revise its state revenue estimates if appropriate. Any revision to its revenue estimates and reasons therefor shall be forwarded to the governor and chairs. The funding board shall identify and report in its presentation of state revenue estimates whether any growth in franchise and excise tax revenue is nonrecurring or recurring.