Bill Text: SC H3319 | 2017-2018 | 122nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Zero base budget process

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-11 - Member [H3319 Detail]

Download: South_Carolina-2017-H3319-Introduced.html

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A BILL

TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 11-11-85 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR A ZERO BASE BUDGET PROCESS BEGINNING WITH FISCAL YEAR 2018-2019.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Article 1, Chapter 11, Title 11 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 11-11-85.    (A)    The House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee shall implement a zero base budget process, beginning with the annual general appropriations act for Fiscal Year 2018-2019. The schedule for a zero base budget process must be organized by the following agency functional areas for all of state government:

(1)    Fiscal Year 2018-2019, Group I: human service, health care, and social service agencies;

(2)    Fiscal Year 2019-2020, Group II: correctional, criminal justice, public safety, and natural resource agencies;

(3)    Fiscal Year 2020-2021, Group III: executive, regulatory, judicial, quasijudicial agencies and boards, and other agencies determined by the committees not to fall in the first two categories;

(4)    Fiscal Year 2021-2022, Group IV: education functions of government including, but not limited to, public education and higher education.

(B)    The process for each group must be maintained on a four-year rotating basis."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.