Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:3128 Primary Sponsor:Keegan Committee Number:30 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Zero-Based Budget Residing Body:House Current Committee:Ways and Means Computer Document Number:JIC/5032HC.93 Introduced Date:19930114 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19930114 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Keegan Type of Legislation:General Bill
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3128 House 19930114 Introduced, read first time, 30
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TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING ARTICLE 7 TO CHAPTER 11, TITLE 11, SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR A "ZERO-BASED" BUDGET REVIEW OF CERTAIN AGENCIES, DEPARTMENTS, COMMISSIONS, BOARDS, AND INSTITUTIONS EVERY EIGHT YEARS BY A JOINT COMMITTEE CONSISTING OF MEMBERS OF THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE AND SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE FOR COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP AND DUTIES, FOR THE SCOPE OF REVIEW, AND FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SCHEDULE OF REVIEW.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. The General Assembly finds that the growth of the budgets of state agencies, departments, commissions, boards, and institutions has not been accompanied by a systematic and comprehensive legislative review of agency budgeting decisions. The General Assembly further finds that systematic legislative review of twenty-four agency budgets by means of a "zero-based budget" analysis will provide the General Assembly important information essential in the consideration of appropriations bills. In order to facilitate a systematic legislative budget review, the General Assembly finds that a schedule must be established that would cause a comprehensive zero-based budget review of the budgets every eight years by a joint committee consisting of members of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate Finance Committee.
SECTION 2. Chapter 11, Title 11 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
Section 11-11-610. (A) Every eighth year, the budgets of the following state agencies, departments, commissions, boards, and institutions must be reviewed comprehensively by a joint committee for budget review of the House of Representatives and the Senate:
( 1) State Department of Education;
( 2) State Department of Mental Health;
( 3) State Mental Retardation Department;
( 4) State Department of Corrections;
( 5) South Carolina Department of Youth Services;
( 6) Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services;
( 7) University of South Carolina;
( 8) State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education;
( 9) Medical University of South Carolina;
(10) Clemson University;
(11) State Health and Human Services Finance Commission;
(12) South Carolina Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse;
(13) State Department of Social Services;
(14) Vocational Rehabilitation;
(15) South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control;
(16) South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department;
(17) State Forestry Commission;
(18) South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism;
(19) South Carolina Tax Commission;
(20) South Carolina Educational Television Commission;
(21) State Development Board;
(22) Judicial Department;
(23) State Law Enforcement Division;
(24) Attorney General.
(B) Each joint committee consists of members of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate Finance Committee and is styled the Joint Committee for Budget Review. The chairmen of these committees, at the outset of each General Assembly, shall appoint from the membership of his committee those members who shall serve on a joint committee. No member may serve on more than two joint committees simultaneously. Vacancies must be filled in the same manner as original appointments. Each joint committee for budget review shall adopt rules and elect a chairman. The chairman shall serve for a term of one year and until his successor is elected and qualifies, with the chairmanship alternating each year between a member of the House of Representatives and a member of the Senate.
(C) Joint committees may make temporary use of appropriate staff of the standing committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate with the approval of the chairmen of the respective standing committees from which the temporary use of staff is requested.
Section 11-11-620. The chairman of each joint committee shall give each agency, department, commission, board, or institution scheduled for review at least fifteen days advance notice of the time and place appointed for the review and those officials the joint committee requires to be present at the review. At the appointed time and place, each agency, department, commission, board, or institution shall submit a detailed analysis by budget classification of the funds required for both its recurring expenses and anticipated additional expenses. Each agency, department, commission, board, or institution shall justify to the joint committee all of its recurring expenses for the current fiscal year and new or additional expenses proposed for a succeeding fiscal year if the agency has made a request for new or additional funding to the State Budget and Control Board. Agency officials shall furnish all material requested by the joint committee including material requested for submission in advance of a scheduled review and comply with all other requests, including on-site inspections, that the joint committee determines necessary in conducting its review. Reviews must be conducted and completed between September first and December first in odd-numbered years and between July first and October fifteenth in even-numbered years. Each joint committee shall make written findings with respect to each agency, department, commission, board, or institution reviewed, including recommendations for increases or reductions in funding levels. The findings must be referred to the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate Finance Committee.
Section 11-11-630. (A) The agencies, departments, commissions, boards, and institutions listed in Section 11-11-610(A)(1) through (24) must be reviewed as follows:
(1) the first year: (1);
(2) the second year: (2) and (3);
(3) the third year: (4) through (6);
(4) the fourth year: (7) through (10);
(5) the fifth year: (11) and (12);
(6) the sixth year: (13) and (14);
(7) the seventh year: (15) through (18);
(8) the eighth year: (19) through (24).
(B) Each succeeding year the review schedule continues with the agencies, departments, commissions, boards, and institutions listed as provided in subsection (A) in sequence.
SECTION 3. This act takes effect January 1, 1994.