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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="9-318" title_number="9" title_name="Workers' Compensation" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="State Workers' Compensation Commission">
  <level label="a">
    <text>By September 1 of each year, the Commission shall prepare a tentative operating budget for the next fiscal year and submit it to the Advisory Committee established under § 9-317 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>By November 1 of each year, the Advisory Committee shall review the tentative operating budget and make recommendations to the Commission as to any changes in any budget area of the Commission.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Commission shall give due consideration to the recommendations of the Advisory Committee prior to submitting the Commission’s final budget to the Governor.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>By December 1 of each year, the Advisory Committee shall submit a report to the Governor and, subject to § 2-1257 of the State Government Article, to the General Assembly on the recommendations that it made to the Commission on the Commission’s next fiscal year budget.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Governor shall give due consideration to the recommendations of the Advisory Committee.</text>
  </level>
</section>
