BILL NUMBER: AB 540	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Monning

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to add Section 8543.4 to the Government Code, relating to
the State Auditor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 540, as introduced, Monning. State Auditor: Bureau of State
Audits: budget.
   Existing law establishes the Bureau of State Audits under the
direction of the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on
California State Government Organization and Economy and requires the
bureau to be independent of the executive branch and legislative
control in order to be free of organizational impairments to
independence.
   This bill would require the bureau to provide the Department of
Finance with the bureau's proposed budget for each fiscal year. The
bill would also require the Department of Finance to include the
bureau's proposed budget in the Governor's Budget without
modification.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 8543.4 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   8543.4.  In administering the fiscal policies of the Bureau of
State Audits, for each fiscal year, the bureau shall provide the
Department of Finance with the bureau's proposed budget and the
Department of Finance shall include that proposed budget in the
Governor's Budget without modification.