Report Title:

Budget

 

Description:

Requires the six-year program and financial plan and the executive budget to include total expenditure figures for xx program, expending agency, and method of funding; further provides for publication of budget totals in a newspaper of general circulation.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1246

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the state budget.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 37-69, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§37-69 The six-year program and financial plan. (a) The governor shall prepare a state six-year program and financial plan encompassing all state programs. Not fewer than thirty days before the legislature convenes in every odd-numbered year, the governor shall submit to the legislature and to each member thereof the six-year program and financial plan. The program and financial plan shall be annually and continually updated and maintained. The program and financial plan, in general, shall contain:

(1) The state program structure;

(2) Statements of statewide objectives and program objectives;

(3) Program plans that describe the programs recommended to implement the statewide and program objectives and the manner in which the recommended programs are proposed to be implemented over the next six fiscal years; and

(4) A financial plan that shows the fiscal implications of the recommended programs for the next six fiscal years.

(b) The information contained in the program and financial plan shall be presented generally in the following manner:

(1) Information shall be displayed by programs, or groups of programs.

(2) Programs shall be appropriately crosswalked to expending agencies.

(3) Data shall be appropriately summarized at each level of the program structure. Expenditures shall be summarized as follows:

(A) total expenditures for each program, including percentage increase or decrease from the previous fiscal year;

(B) total expenditures for each expending agency including percentage increase or decrease from the previous fiscal year;

(C) total expenditures for each method of funding, including percentage increase of decrease from the previous fiscal year;

(D) total expenditures for capital improvement projects and investment appropriations; and

(E) grand totals for each fiscal year.

At the time of submission to the legislature, this summary information as provided in this section, shall be published in at least one newspaper, published in the English language, in each county having a general circulation.

(4) Program costs shall include all costs, including research and development, operating and capital, regardless of the means of financing except that the means of financing shall be expressly identified; all costs shall be displayed in the year of their anticipated expenditure, regardless of whether such costs have been authorized to be expended by prior appropriations acts or are authorized to be expended by existing law, or require new appropriations or authorizations."

SECTION 2. Section 37-71, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"37-71 The budget. (a) Not fewer than thirty days before

the legislature convenes in every odd-numbered year, the governor shall submit to the legislature and to each member thereof a budget that shall contain the program and budget recommendations of the governor for the succeeding two fiscal years. The budget, in general, shall contain:

(1) The state program structure;

(2) Statements of statewide objectives;

(3) The financial requirements for the next two fiscal years to carry out the recommended programs; and

(4) A summary of state receipts and revenues in the last completed fiscal year, a revised estimate for the fiscal year in progress, and an estimate for the succeeding biennium.

(b) The information contained in the budget shall be presented generally in the following manner:

(1) Information shall be displayed by programs or groups of programs.

(2) Program financial requirements shall be appropriately crosswalked between the programs and expending agencies.

(3) Data shall be appropriately summarized at each level of the program structure.

(4) Program costs shall include all costs, including research and development, operating and capital, regardless of the means of financing, except that the means of financing shall be expressly identified, and regardless of whether the expenditure of any sum was authorized by prior appropriations acts, is authorized by existing law, or requires new authorization, except that the amounts requiring new authorization shall be appropriately identified.

(5) Financial requirements shall be presented to the nearest dollar, omitting cents; and the summary of state receipts and revenues shall be presented to the nearest thousand dollars.

(6) The budget shall reflect the ensuing first two fiscal year program costs contained int he six-year program and financial plan[.] ; and expenditures shall be summarized as follows:

(A) total expenditures for each program, including percentage increase or decrease from the previous fiscal year;

(B) total expenditures for each expending agency, including percentage increase or decrease from the previous fiscal year;

(C) total expenditures for each method of funding, including percentage increase or decrease from the previous fiscal year;

(D) total expenditures for capital improvement projects and investment appropriations; and

(E) grand totals for each fiscal year.

At the time of submission to the legislature, this summary information as provided in this section, shall be published in at least one newspaper, published in the English language, in each county having a general circulation."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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