House File 322 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY WINDSCHITL, RAECKER, DEYOE,
SANDS, HELLAND, HAGENOW,
SODERBERG, DE BOEF, MAY,
and SCHULTZ
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act requiring the budget submissions of state agencies to
2 utilize a zero=base approach.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 8.23, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code
1 2 2009, is amended to read as follows:
1 3 a. The estimates of expenditure requirements shall be
1 4 based upon seventy=five percent of the funding provided for
1 5 the current fiscal year accounted for by program reduced by
1 6 the historical employee vacancy factor in form specified by
1 7 the director and the remainder of the estimate of expenditure
1 8 requirements prioritized by program utilize a zero=base
1 9 approach of providing sufficient supporting data and
1 10 explanations to justify each expenditure as though it were a
1 11 new expenditure. The estimates shall include a prioritization
1 12 of each expenditure in relation to the other expenditures
1 13 transmitted. The estimates shall be accompanied with by
1 14 performance measures for evaluating the effectiveness of the
1 15 program.
1 16 Sec. 2. Section 602.1301, subsection 2, paragraph a,
1 17 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2009, is amended to read as
1 18 follows:
1 19 As early as possible, but not later than December 1, the
1 20 supreme court shall submit to the legislative services agency
1 21 the annual budget request and detailed supporting information
1 22 for the judicial branch. The submission shall be designed to
1 23 assist the legislative services agency in its preparation for
1 24 legislative consideration of the budget request. The
1 25 information submitted shall contain and be arranged in a
1 26 format substantially similar to the format specified by the
1 27 director of management and used by all departments and
1 28 establishments in transmitting to the director estimates of
1 29 their expenditure requirements pursuant to section 8.23,
1 30 except the estimates of expenditure requirements shall be
1 31 based upon one hundred percent of funding for the current
1 32 fiscal year accounted for by program, and using the same line
1 33 item definitions of expenditures as used for the current
1 34 fiscal year's budget request, and the remainder of the
1 35 estimate of expenditure requirements prioritized by program by
2 1 utilizing a zero=base approach of providing sufficient
2 2 supporting data and explanations to justify each expenditure
2 3 as though it were a new expenditure. The estimates shall
2 4 include a prioritization of each expenditure in relation to
2 5 the other expenditures submitted. The supreme court shall
2 6 also make use of the department of management's automated
2 7 budget system when submitting information to the director of
2 8 management to assist the director in the transmittal of
2 9 information as required under section 8.35A. The supreme
2 10 court shall budget and track expenditures by the following
2 11 separate organization codes:
2 12 EXPLANATION
2 13 This bill requires the budget submissions of executive
2 14 branch departments and the judicial branch to utilize a zero=
2 15 base approach.
2 16 Under current law in Code section 8.23, the executive
2 17 branch departments' estimates of expenditure requirements are
2 18 based upon 75 percent of the funding provided for the current
2 19 fiscal year as adjusted by the historical employee vacancy
2 20 factor. The remaining expenditure requirements are
2 21 prioritized by program. Under the bill's zero=base approach,
2 22 the expenditure requirements must provide sufficient
2 23 supporting data and explanations to justify each expenditure
2 24 as though it were a new expenditure. The estimates are also
2 25 required to include a prioritization of each expenditure in
2 26 relation to the other expenditures transmitted.
2 27 Under current law in Code section 602.1301, unlike the
2 28 requirement of the executive branch, the supreme court must
2 29 submit an annual operating budget for the judicial branch that
2 30 is based upon 100 percent of the funding provided for the
2 31 previous fiscal year. As with the executive branch
2 32 departments, the bill replaces the 100 percent requirement
2 33 with a zero=base approach requiring data and explanations for
2 34 each expenditure and a prioritization of the expenditures.
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