Bill Text: CA SB801 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Finance: reports: crimes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-09-09 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 281, Statutes of 2013. [SB801 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB801-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 801	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 26, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 17, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Roth

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 13031 to the Government Code, relating to
financial reports.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 801, as amended, Roth. Department of Finance: reports: crimes.
   Existing law authorizes the Department of Finance to require
financial and statistical reports, duly verified and covering the
period of each fiscal year, from all agencies of the state. Existing
law provides that every person who fails or neglects to make, verify,
and file with the department any required report, or fails or
neglects to follow the directions of the department in keeping the
accounts of his or her office, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
   This bill would require the department to require each 
officer   department head or designee  whose duty
it is to audit the accounts of a state agency or other state entity
to provide a certification under penalty of perjury to the department
that the budgeting and accounting information provided reconciles to
the year-end finance reports submitted to the Controller's office.
By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a  state
mandated   state-mandated  local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 13031 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   13031.   The department shall annually require each 
officer   department head or designee  whose duty
it is to audit the accounts of a state agency, department, office,
bureau, or other state entity to provide a certification, signed
under penalty of perjury, to the department that the budgeting and
accounting information provided to the department reconciles to the
year-end finance reports submitted to the Controller's office. 
An individual who willfully makes and subscribes a certification to
an account to which he or she knows to be false as to any material
matter shall be subject to the penalties prescribed for perjury in
the Penal Code. 
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.