Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:1025 Primary Sponsor:Drummond Committee Number:06 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Appropriations, executive budget Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Finance Computer Document Number:JIC/5295HC.94 Introduced Date:19940113 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:19940113 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Drummond Type of Legislation:General Bill
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1025 Senate 19940113 Introduced, read first time, 06
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TO AMEND SECTION 11-11-20, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE PROPOSED ANNUAL STATE BUDGET, SO AS TO REQUIRE THE GOVERNOR TO ESTABLISH AND ADOPT GOALS FOR THE FUNCTIONAL AREAS OF STATE GOVERNMENT, REPORT THESE GOALS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AND INCORPORATE A PLAN TO ATTAIN THE GOALS IN THE ANNUAL PROPOSED BUDGET AND REQUIRE AGENCIES TO ASSESS THEIR PERFORMANCE AND REPORT THEIR FINDINGS TO THE GOVERNOR AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY; TO AMEND SECTION 11-11-70, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE SUBMISSION TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY THE STATE BUDGET AND CONTROL BOARD OF THE PROPOSED STATE BUDGET FOR THE UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR, SO AS TO CONFORM THE REQUIREMENT TO THE PROCESS OF THE GOVERNOR'S SUBMISSION OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET AND TO DELETE OTHER OBSOLETE REQUIREMENTS; TO AMEND SECTION 11-11-90, RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE HEARINGS ON THE ANNUAL GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL, SO AS TO MAKE VOLUNTARY THE PROVISIONS FOR JOINT BUDGETARY HEARINGS AND TO CONFORM THE SECTION TO THE RECOMMENDED EXECUTIVE BUDGET; TO AMEND SECTION 11-11-130, RELATING TO SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION REQUESTS, SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNOR TO INCLUDE A SEPARATE RECOMMENDATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS FROM SURPLUS IN THE ANNUAL BUDGET RECOMMENDATION AND TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNOR TO MAKE A SEPARATE PROPOSAL AFTER MARCH FIRST RECOMMENDING APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE CAPITAL RESERVE FUND; AND TO REPEAL SECTIONS 1-11-21, 11-11-10, 11-11-30, 11-11-40, 11-11-50, AND 11-11-60, ALL RELATING TO OBSOLETE BUDGET PROCESS PROVISIONS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 11-11-20 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 11-11-20. On or before the first day of November in each year the State Budget and Control Board and its assistants shall complete a careful survey of all the departments, bureaus, divisions, officers, boards, commissions, institutions and other agencies and undertakings of the State, through which it shall be in possession of the working knowledge upon which to base its recommendations to the General Assembly. (A) The Governor, after consultation with the State Budget and Control Board, shall establish and adopt goals for achievement for each functional area of state government. The functional areas shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) education;
(2) health;
(3) human services;
(4) natural resources;
(5) regulation;
(6) transportation;
(7) corrections and public safety; and
(8) economic development.
(B) A statement of goals in each functional area must be provided to state agencies not later than September 1 of each even-numbered year and provided to the General Assembly within ten days after the beginning of each regular session of the General Assembly in odd-numbered years. For each gubernatorial budget submitted to the General Assembly, the recommendations contained in the budget must be based upon a plan of attainment for the goals for state government as established and adopted by the Governor.
(C) State agencies shall assess the performance of their activities in relation to the goals and report findings to the Governor and the General Assembly on an annual basis. The State Budget and Control Board shall assist agencies in developing plans to achieve the goals and assessing agency performance in relation to those goals. The State Budget and Control Board shall determine the medium and format of all performance reports."
SECTION 2. Section 11-11-70 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 385 of 1988, is further amended to read:
"Section 11-11-70. (A) Within five ten days after the beginning of each regular session of the General Assembly the State Budget and Control Board Governor shall submit to the presiding officer of each house printed copies of a the Governor's proposed budget, and a proposed general appropriations bill for the next fiscal year to the presiding officer of each house and to the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee. The proposed budget must be submitted to the committee staffs whether or not the committees have been formally organized. based on its own conclusions and judgments, The proposed budget shall contain containing a complete and itemized plan of all proposed expenditures for each state department, bureau, division, officer, board, commission, agency or institution, or other agency or undertaking, classified by functions, character, and object program, and of estimated revenues and borrowings for each the fiscal year, beginning with the first day of the next fiscal year. Opposite each item of the proposed expenditures the budget must show in separate parallel columns the amount appropriated for the last preceding appropriation year, for the current appropriation year and the increase or decrease as practicable.
(B) The proposed budget which is submitted by the board to the presiding officer of each house Governor to the presiding officer of each house pursuant to this section must conform to the funding requirements contained in Section 36 of Article III of the Constitution of this State."
SECTION 3. Section 11-11-90 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 11-11-90. The standing committees of the House of Representatives and of the Senate in charge of appropriation measures shall may sit jointly in open sessions while considering the budget and shall may begin such joint meetings within five ten days after the proposed budget has been submitted to the General Assembly by the State Budget and Control Board Governor. This joint committee or the standing committees may cause the attendance of heads or responsible representatives of the departments, institutions, and all other agencies of the State to furnish such information and answer such questions as the joint committee or the standing committees shall require and to these sessions shall must be admitted, with the right to be heard, all persons interested in the estimates under consideration. The Board Governor, or its his representatives, and the Governor-elect shall have the right to may sit at these public hearings and be heard on all matters coming before the joint committee."
SECTION 4. Section 11-11-130 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 11-11-130. Any agency of the State of South Carolina desiring to request supplemental appropriations shall submit such requests to the Budget and Control Board on or before February first of each year. These requests shall contain such information and be in such form as the Budget and Control Board may require. The Budget and Control Board may conduct such investigations and hearings as it may deem necessary and shall, not later than March fifteenth, submit to the presiding officers of each House its recommendations for supplemental appropriations. The recommendations for supplemental appropriations shall be accompanied by a statement from the Budget and Control Board as to the availability of revenue to fund the proposed expenditures.
As part of the budget proposal to the General Assembly, the Governor may transmit within the gubernatorial budget a separate and distinct recommendation for the expenditure of any unobligated supplemental general funds for the most recently completed fiscal year, as identified by the Comptroller General. After March first of a fiscal year, the Governor may also submit to the General Assembly a separate and distinct recommendation for the expenditure of the Capital Reserve Fund. All recommendations made by the Governor for any supplemental funds and the Capital Reserve Fund must be in compliance with applicable statutes."
SECTION 5. Sections 1-11-21, 11-11-10, 11-11-30, 11-11-40, 11-11-50, and 11-11-60 all of the 1976 Code are repealed.
SECTION 6. This act takes effect July 1, 1994.