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    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                CS/HB 1

        By the Committee on Governmental Operations and
    Representative Posey





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to state finances; amending s.

  3         186.022, F.S.; requiring each state agency

  4         annual performance report to include an

  5         assessment of performance measures approved by

  6         the Legislature and established in the General

  7         Appropriations Act or implementing legislation

  8         for the General Appropriations Act for the

  9         previous fiscal year and a summary of all

10         moneys that were expended or encumbered by the

11         agency, or for which the agency is otherwise

12         responsible, during the preceding fiscal year

13         and an estimate of such moneys for the current

14         fiscal year; providing requirements for the

15         reporting of such information; providing for a

16         reduction in funding for failure to submit the

17         required state agency annual performance

18         report; amending s. 216.0235, F.S.; requiring

19         instructions with respect to such information

20         to be included in the performance-based

21         legislative program budget instructions;

22         requiring the Florida Financial Management

23         Information System Coordinating Council to

24         submit to the Governor and Legislature a

25         report, with recommendations, relating to the

26         reporting of such information; providing an

27         effective date.

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29  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  1         Section 1.  Subsection (8) of section 186.022, Florida

  2  Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

  3         186.022  State agency strategic plans; preparation,

  4  form, and review.--

  5         (8)  Each agency shall submit by September 1 of each

  6  year an annual performance report to the Executive Office of

  7  the Governor, with copies to the President of the Senate, the

  8  Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Auditor

  9  General, and the Office of Program Policy Analysis and

10  Government Accountability. The purpose of this report is to

11  evaluate the attainment of the agency objectives in the agency

12  strategic plan and the performance measures approved by the

13  Legislature pursuant to s. 216.0166(3) and established in the

14  General Appropriations Act or implementing legislation for the

15  General Appropriations Act for the previous fiscal year. In

16  addition, each state agency must include a one-page summary of

17  all moneys that were expended or encumbered by the agency, or

18  for which the agency was otherwise responsible, during the

19  preceding fiscal year and an estimate of such moneys projected

20  by the agency for the current fiscal year. All such

21  expenditures and estimates of such expenditures must be

22  divided by program and expressed in line items by unit costs

23  for each output measure approved pursuant to s. 216.0166(3)

24  for those agencies and programs operating under

25  performance-based program budgeting and for major services and

26  products for those agencies and programs operating under

27  traditional line-item budgeting. Unit-cost totals must equal

28  the total amount of moneys that were expended or projected to

29  be expended by each agency and must include expenditures or

30  projected expenditures of state funds by subordinate

31  governmental entities and contractors, as applicable. Moneys

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  1  that agencies receive but are not responsible for, such as

  2  reversions or pass-throughs to entities over which the agency

  3  has no authority or responsibility, shall be shown in separate

  4  line items and expressed in total amounts only. At the regular

  5  session immediately following the submission of the agency

  6  performance report, the Legislature shall reduce in the

  7  General Appropriations Act for the ensuing fiscal year, by an

  8  amount equal to at least 10 percent of the allocation for the

  9  fiscal year preceding the current fiscal year, the funding of

10  each state agency that fails to submit the report required by

11  this subsection. All reports must be submitted in the form and

12  manner prescribed by the instructions prepared pursuant to

13  subsection (2) and s. 216.0235(3).

14         Section 2.  Subsection (3) of section 216.0235, Florida

15  Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

16         216.0235  Performance-based legislative program budget

17  requests to be furnished by agencies.--

18         (3)  The Executive Office of the Governor and the

19  legislative appropriations committees shall jointly develop

20  legislative program budget instructions from which each agency

21  that has an approved program and the judicial branch, pursuant

22  to ss. 216.0166 and 216.043, shall prepare its legislative

23  program budget request. The program budget instructions must

24  be consistent with s. 216.141 and must be transmitted to each

25  agency and to the judicial branch no later than June 15 of

26  each year. The budget instructions must also include

27  instructions for agencies in submitting performance measures

28  and standards as required by s. 216.0166. The budget

29  instructions must also include instructions for agencies in

30  submitting the assessment of performance measures and the

31  unit-cost information required to be included in the agency

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  1  annual performance report under s. 186.022(8). The Executive

  2  Office of the Governor, in consultation with the Office of

  3  Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, the

  4  Auditor General, the Department of Banking and Finance, and

  5  the legislative appropriations committees, shall develop

  6  instructions as to the calculation of the unit-cost

  7  information and the format and presentation of the summary

  8  required under s. 186.022(8). In the event that agreement

  9  cannot be reached between the Executive Office of the Governor

10  and the legislative appropriations committees regarding

11  legislative program budget instructions, the issue shall be

12  resolved by the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the

13  Speaker of the House of Representatives.

14         Section 3.  The Florida Financial Management

15  Information System Coordinating Council shall submit to the

16  Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the

17  House of Representatives by October 1, 1999, a report, with

18  recommendations, on the necessity and feasibility of, and the

19  costs associated with, enhancements to the Florida Accounting

20  Information Resource Subsystem required to support state

21  agencies in providing the unit-cost information required to be

22  reported under s. 186.022(8), Florida Statutes, as amended by

23  this act.

24         Section 4.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

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