budget vote
Fiscal approval ballot
A budget vote is a formal decision by a legislative body or electorate on proposed spending and revenue plans.
In U.S. local government, budget votes often refer to annual public referendums on school district budgets: The school budget vote is next Tuesday.
In parliamentary systems, a failed budget vote can trigger a government's collapse.
- appropriationUnauthorized claiming or allocation
- spending billLaw authorizing government expenditures
- fiscalOf public revenue
- fiscal yearAccounting calendar period
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
legislative session · spending · deficit · debt ceiling · allocation · austerity · legislation · taxpayer · chamber · floor · roll call · majority · party line · amendment · debate · passage · up or down · coalition
- Canadian ParliamentHouse of Commons, Senate, Parliament Hill, MP, senator
- town meetingmoderator, selectmen, selectman, town clerk, appropriation
- parliamentary votes
- government actionslaws, policies, presidential decree, resolution, mandates
- political eventselection, campaign, debate, rally, inauguration
- Congresssenator, representative, senators, House, bill
budget votepolicy debate
Competitive two-on-two argumentation
confirmation vote · non-binding resolution · confidence vote · legislative debate · no-confidence vote
budget voteexecutive order
Binding directive from leadership
presidential decree · royal decree · veto · executive action · diktat
budget, vote, budgets, budgeted, budgeting, budgetary, votes, voted, voting