Requiring the budget submissions of executive branch departments to utilize a zero-base approach once per decade

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 20, 2019
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 25, 2019
3. ✕
   Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill requires the budget submissions of executive branch departments to utilize a zero-base approach once per decade.23, the executive branch departments’ estimates of expenditure requirements are based upon percent of the funding provided for the current fiscal year as adjusted by the historical employee vacancy factor. The remaining estimates of expenditure requirements are prioritized by program. The bill requires estimates of expenditure requirements for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, and for every tenth fiscal year thereafter, to utilize a zero-base approach of providing sufficient supporting data and explanations to justify each expenditure as though it were a new expenditure.

Full bill text¹

House subcommittee

Named February 25, 2019. On February 28, 2019 it recommended passage.

• Rep. Ashley Hinson R
• Rep. Chris Hall D
• Rep. Mike Sexton R

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