California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2635

Introduced by Assembly Member Olsen

February 21, 2014

An act to add and repeal Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 9136) to Chapter 1.5. of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 2 of the Government Code, relating to the state budget.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2635, as introduced, Olsen. Performance-based budgeting practices: legislative review.

Existing law establishes a joint legislative committee, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, to ascertain facts and make recommendations to the Legislature and the houses thereof concerning the state budget, the revenues and expenditures of the state, the organization and functions of the state, its departments, subdivisions, and agencies, and other matters.

This bill would require, on or before April 1, 2015, the Department of Finance to submit a report to the Legislature on the progress of state agencies that have utilized performance-based budgeting practices since the implementation of a specified executive order.

The California Constitution vests the Legislature with the power of appropriation and requires the Legislature to pass the budget bill by midnight on June 15 of each year.

The bill would expressly state that the budget committees of each house of the Legislature may consider information from the report described above and that the Legislature may withhold or modify appropriations for state agencies that do not comply with the specified executive order.

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.  

Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 9136) is
added to Chapter 1.5 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 2 of the Government Code, to read:

 

Article 6.5.  Legislative Budget Review

 

9136.  

(a) On or before April 1, 2015, the Department of
Finance shall, notwithstanding Section 9795, submit a report to
the Legislature on the progress of state agencies that have utilized
performance-based budgeting practices since the implementation
of Executive Order B-13-11.

(b) The Assembly Committee on Budget and the Senate
Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review may consider information
contained within the report required by subdivision (a) in
connection with the state budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

(c) The Legislature may withhold or modify appropriations for
the upcoming fiscal year for any state agency that fails to timely
report information to the Department of Finance pursuant to
Executive Order B-13-11.

9136.1.  

Pursuant to Section 10231.5, this article is repealed on
April 1, 2019.