Bill Text: CA SCA28 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Auditor: duties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-09 - Set, first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 2. Noes 3. Page 3861.) Reconsideration granted. [SCA28 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SCA28-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCA 28	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 24, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 5, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2010

   A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California
an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by adding Section 10
to Article III thereof, relating to state audits.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCA 28, as amended, Wyland. State Auditor: duties.
   Existing statutory law establishes the Bureau of State Audits,
which is headed by the State Auditor and has specified statutory
duties, including the performance of statutorily mandated audits.
Existing law states that the Bureau of State Audits, in order to be
free of organizational impairments to independence, shall be
independent of the executive branch and legislative control.
   This measure would require the State Auditor to biennially conduct
a performance evaluation of each state program, including the
administration or oversight of that program by the department or
agency that is responsible for the program, and submit a report of
the results of that performance evaluation to the Legislature, as
prescribed.  This measure would require   the committee
that considers the budget in each house of the Legislature to meet
and consider recommendations made in   each  
performance evaluation   within 90 days of submission by the
State Auditor   .  This measure would require the
State Auditor to make each performance evaluation available to the
public on an Internet Web site and in hardcopy format and require the
Legislature to appropriate to the Bureau of State Audits those funds
that are necessary to implement these provisions.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.



   Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the
Legislature of the State of California at its 2009-10 Regular Session
commencing on the first day of December 2008, two-thirds of the
membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to the people of
the State of California, that the Constitution of the State be
amended as follows:
    That Section 10 is added to Article III thereof, to read:
      SEC. 10.  (a) Not later than January 1, 2012, and no less
frequently than every two years thereafter, the State Auditor, or his
or her successor, shall conduct a performance evaluation of each
state government program, including the administration or oversight
of that program by each department or agency that is responsible for
the program, and shall submit to the Legislature a report of the
results of that performance evaluation. 
   (b) Within 90 calendar days of the date that the State Auditor, or
his or her successor, submits a report of the results of a
performance evaluation to the Legislature pursuant to subdivision
(a), the committee that considers the budget in each house of the
Legislature shall meet and consider the recommendations made in the
performance evaluation pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (c).
 
   (b) 
    (c)  Each performance evaluation of a program conducted
under this section shall include, but is not limited to, all of the
following:
   (1) A statement of the purposes of the program, including the
intent of the Legislature pursuant to any measure enacted to
establish or modify the program.
   (2) A discussion of the history of the program.
   (3) A description of all sources of funding for the program, and
an evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of the program.
   (4) An evaluation of the success of the program, including an
explanation of the methodology used to evaluate that success.
   (5) Recommendations as to how the program may be made more
efficient and effective, or as to whether the program should be
eliminated.
   (6) Any related information or evaluation the State Auditor deems
appropriate. 
   (c) 
    (d)  The State Auditor shall make each performance
evaluation prepared pursuant to this section available to the public
on an Internet Web site and in a hardcopy format. 
   (d) 
    (e)  The Legislature shall appropriate to the Bureau of
State Audits, or any successor entity, those funds that are necessary
to implement this section.