BILL NUMBER: SB 15 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 25, 2011
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 19, 2011
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 25, 2011
INTRODUCED BY Senators DeSaulnier and Wolk
(Principal coauthor: Senator Rubio)
(Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Alejo, Blumenfield,
Bonilla, Feuer, and Huffman)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Buchanan and Gordon)
DECEMBER 6, 2010
An act to amend Section 13308 of the Government Code, relating to
the state budget.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 15, as amended, DeSaulnier. State budget.
Existing law requires the Governor to submit to the Legislature,
within the first 10 days of each calendar year, a budget for the
ensuing fiscal year. Under existing law, the budget is required to
contain a complete plan and itemized statements of all proposed
expenditures and all estimated revenues of the state for the ensuing
fiscal year, together with a comparison with the actual revenues and
expenditures for the last completed fiscal year, the estimated
revenues and expenditures for the existing fiscal year, and the
budgeted revenues and expenditures for the next fiscal year. Existing
law further requires the Director of Finance to provide to the
Legislature, on or before May 14 of each year, an estimate of General
Fund revenues for the current fiscal year and the ensuing fiscal
year, any proposals to reduce expenditures to reflect updated revenue
estimates, and specified proposed adjustments to the Governor's
Budget.
This bill would require the Director of Finance to submit, at the
time of the submission of the budget by the Governor,
itemized statements for recommeded , or as soon
thereafter as feasible, total recommended state General
Fund expenditures and estimated state revenues,
including which include (1) an estimate of total
General Fund resources , including any proposed
resources, available for state General Fund
expenditures for the budget year and the succeeding 4
3 fiscal years following the budget
year, as well as revenues anticipated to be one-time revenues
, (2) a 5-year capital infrastructure plan,
(3) a projection of anticipated state expenditures for the
budget year and 4 the succeeding 3
fiscal years following the budget year, as specified
, and (4) to the extent possible,
estimates and projections from the Governor's
Budgets for applicable to the budget year from
the previous 4 fiscal years enacted Budget
Act projections . The bill would require specified parts of
this information to be updated at , as soon
as feasible, within specified times.
This bill would also require the Director of Finance to seek to
contract with the University of California to produce a report due to
the director and to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee within
the first 10 days of the 2013-14 Legislative Session on the long-term
impact of the state budget on the economy of the state, as
specified.
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 13308 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
13308. (a) (1) At the time of the submission of the Governor's
Budget pursuant to Section 12 of Article IV of the California
Constitution, within the first 10 days of each calendar year, or
as soon thereafter as feasible, the Director of Finance shall
submit to the Legislature itemized statements for
total recommended state General Fund
expenditures and estimated , including any proposed, state
General Fund revenues that shall include the following:
(A) An estimate of revenues anticipated to be one-time
revenues.
(B)
(A) The five-year capital infrastructure plan required
by Section 13102.
(C)
(B) An estimate of the total General Fund
resources , including any proposed resources, available
for the state General Fund expenditures recommended for
the budget year and the four three
fiscal years following the budget year.
(D)
(C) A projection of anticipated state General Fund
expenditures recommended for the budget year and, for the
four three fiscal years following the
budget year, the changes in those expenditure amounts that would
likely result from changes in population, caseload, and similar
factors.
(2) To the extent possible, the information
total resources and expenditures provided pursuant to
subparagraphs (C) (B) and (D)
(C) of paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by the
estimates and projections applicable to the
Governor's Budgets for budget year from
the previous four fiscal years enacted
Budget Act projections .
(3) The information provided pursuant to subparagraphs
(C) (B) and (D) (C)
of paragraph (1) shall be updated in as
soon as feasible after both the submission pursuant to
subdivision (e) of this section , and upon
enactment of the Budget Act.
(b) The Director of Finance shall provide to the Legislature, on
or before February 1 of each year, all proposed statutory changes, as
prepared by the Legislative Counsel, that are necessary to implement
the Governor's Budget, as described in subdivision (a) of Section
13337.
(c) The Director of Finance shall provide to the Legislature, on
or before April 1 of each year, all proposed adjustments to the
Governor's Budget except as specified by subdivisions (d) and (e).
(d) The Director of Finance shall provide to the Legislature, on
or before May 1 of each year, all proposed adjustments to the
Governor's Budget in appropriations for capital outlay.
(e) The Director of Finance shall provide to the Legislature, on
or before May 14 of each year, all of the following:
(1) An estimate of General Fund revenues for the current fiscal
year and for the ensuing fiscal year.
(2) Any proposals to reduce expenditures to reflect updated
revenue estimates.
(3) All proposed adjustments to the Governor's Budget that are
necessary to reflect updated estimates of state funding required
pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution,
or to reflect caseload enrollment or population changes.
(f) The Director of Finance may authorize suspension for the
current fiscal year of any provision of this section not sooner than
30 days after notification in writing of the necessity therefor to
the chairperson of the committee in each house that considers the
State Budget and the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee.
SEC. 2. The Director of Finance shall seek to
contract with the University of California to produce a report on the
long-term impact that the state budget has on the economy of
California, due to the Director of Finance and the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee within the first 10 days of the 2013-14 Legislative
Session. The selection of the entity that shall author the report
shall be made in consultation with the chairs of the budget
committees in each house of the Legislature.