The Budget Process Part 1
- 4. Budget preparation starts with the Budget Call, which sets the parameters and procedures to guide agencies in preparing their respective proposed budgets.
- 5. Agencies engage citizens as they prepare their proposed budgets, through the Budget Partnership Agreements with civil society organizations (CSOs), Bottom-Up Budgeting (BUB), and other participatory budgeting mechanisms. CITIZEN ENGAGEMEN T
- 7. AGENCY HEARING AND REVIEWS These are conducted after department and agencies submit their Agency Budget proposals to the DBM. Here, agencies defend their proposed budgets before a technical panel of DBM, based on performance indicators on output targets ad absorptive capacity. DBM bureaus review the agency proposals and prepare recommendations
- 8. PRESENTATION TO THE PRESIDENT The proposed budget is presented by the DBM, together with the DBCC, to the President and Cabinet for further refinements or reprioritization. After the president and cabinet approve the proposed National expenditure Plan, the DBM prepares and finalizes the budget documents to the submitted Congress
- 9. The 1987 constitution mandates the president to submit the proposed budget to congress within 30 days from the opening of the regular session of congress. PRESIDENT’S BUDGET
- 11. The House of Representatives, in plenary, assigns the President’s Budget to the House Appropriations Committee. The Committee and its Sub- Committees schedule and conduct hearings on the budgets of the department and agencies and scrutinize their respective programs and projects. It then crafts the General Appropriations Bill (GAB) HOUSE DELIBERATION S
- 12. SENATE DELIBERATIONS Unlike normal legislation, the Constitution first requires the House to approve the GAB before the Senate considers the same. However, to expedite the process, the Senate Committee on Finance usually starts hearings on the President’s Budget well before the House formally transmits the GAB. Like in the House, the Committee on Finance sponsors the GAB in plenary, which then approves the Senate version of the GAB.
- 13. BICAMERAL DELIBERATIONS Once both Houses of Congress have finished their deliberations, they will each constitute a panel to the Bicameral Conference Committee. This committee will then discuss and harmonize the conflicting provisions of the House of the Senate Versions of the GAB. A harmonized Version of the GAB is thus produced.
- 14. The Harmonized or “Bicam” Version is then submitted to both Houses, which will then vote to ratify the final GAB for submission to the President. Once submitted to the President for his approval, the GAB is considered enrolled Ratification and Enrollment
- 15. Budget legislation ends when the President signs the GAA into law. Prior to this, the President may veto or set conditions for implementation of certain items in the GAA, which are then specified in the President’s Veto Message. Unlike other legislation, the President may effect a “line item veto” of specific provisions of the GAB. If in case Congress fails to pass the GAB on time, the President may re-enact the previous year’s GAA until such time that the fresh Budget is passed. Enactment
Editor's Notes
- #5: GAGAWA NG BUDGET FRAMEWORK, SETS ECONOMIC STANDARDS AND FISCAL TARGETS, PRESCIBE THE PRIORITY THRUSTS AND BUDGET LEVELS AND SPELLS OUT THE GUIDELINES AND PROCEDURES, TECHNICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND THE TIMETABLE FOR BUDGET PREPARATION.
- #6: SEEKS TO INCREASE CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN THE BUDGET PROCESS, DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES ARE TASKED TO PARTNER WITH CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS AND OTHER CITIZEN- STAKEHOLDERS AS THEY PREPARE THEIR AGENCY BUDGET PROPOSALS
- #7: 2013 (AQUINO) THE NATIONAL BUDGET USING THE BOTTOM UP BUDGETING, BEFORE KASI FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, PERO IN B-U THE GRASSROOTS COMMUNITIES WILL BE 9ENGAGED IN DESIGNING THE NATIONAL BUDGET
- #10: The proposed Budgets for 2012 to 2016 had been consistently submitted one working day after the opening of the regular session. In addition, the comprehensiveness and level of detail of the Proposed Budget had been improved.
- #12: PLENARY- ATTENDED BY ALL PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE RIGHT TO ATTEND, COMPLETE IN EVERY WAY SCRUTINIZE- EXAMINE CAREFULLY AS
- #13: As in the house process, the senate conducts its own committee hearings and plenary deliberations on the GAB. Budget deliberations in the senate formally start after the house of repesentatives transmits the GAB. THE COMMITTEE SUBMITS ITS PROPOSED amendments to the GAB to plenary only after it has been formalluy transmitted by the HOUSE.