The state budget division shall review the completed budget forms of all state agencies and shall include recommendations concerning the requested appropriation in the tentative budget. Prior to submission of the tentative budget to the governor, any state agency may be given an informal hearing by the state budget division concerning recommendation of the division pertaining to the requested appropriation of such agency, and shall be given such a hearing if the state budget division proposes to decrease the requested appropriation.
NMS § 6-3-20