Virginia Senate Bill 497 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-01-27 - Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 4-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Submission of executive budget; zero-based budgeting. Requires, beginning in the 2018-2020 biennium, that "The Executive Budget" and all "Executive Budgets" shall be prepared and formulated using zero-based budgeting principles. The bill requires that such zero-based budgets reflect the amount of funding deemed necessary to achieve the most cost-effective performance of each agency or department pursuant to an accompanying narrative delineating the tasks to be performed by each agency or department, together with the goals and objectives for each agency or department. Each such budget shall have a zero dollar amount as its initial basis and shall not reflect any prior appropriation amount, adjusted or otherwise.

Executive budget; zero-based budgeting principles.

Sen. Glen Sturtevant [R]

2016-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 4-N) (Y: 11 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-27	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 4-N)
2016-01-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance
2016-01-12	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100932D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	1508	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB497
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB497+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S05V0024+SB0497