Bill Text: AZ SB1311 | 2010 | Forty-ninth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Budget preparation; zero-based budgeting

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-16 - Referred to Senate RULES Committee [SB1311 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2010-SB1311-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: budget preparation; zero-based budgeting

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Forty-ninth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2010

 

 

SB 1311

 

Introduced by

Senators Gray C: Gorman; Representative Burges

 

 

AN ACT

 

Amending section 35‑113, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to state budget preparation.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 35-113, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE35-113.  Submission of budget estimates

Every year for annual budget units and biennially in even‑numbered years for biennial budget units, the head of each budget unit, not later than September 1 or at a later date not to exceed thirty days after September 1 if approved by the director of the governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting, shall submit to the governor, with five copies, estimates of the financial requirements and of receipts, including appropriated and nonappropriated monies in no less detail than the state general fund, of the budget unit for the next two ensuing fiscal years for biennial budget units and for the next fiscal year for annual budget units.  The estimates shall be on the forms and in the manner prescribed by the governor with explanatory data that may be required, together with additional information the head of the budget unit desires to submit.  The estimates shall include a budget for all existing and proposed programs and subprograms using zero‑based budgeting and a priority ranking of the programs and subprograms.  The governor may require biennial budget units to submit budget estimates more often than every two years.  The estimate so estimates submitted shall bear the approval of the administrative head of the budget unit. END_STATUTE