Report Title:

Zero-Based Budgeting; DOE

 

Description:

Requires the proposed executive budgets for the DOE, commencing with FB 2003-2005 and continuing thereafter through FB 2007-2009, to be prepared in accordance with zero-based budgeting principles.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

315

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO ZERO-BASED BUDGETING FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Existing law generally requires every state agency to submit to the department of budget and finance, for approval, a complete and detailed budget of proposed expenditures and estimated revenues.

This Act would, instead, require that the proposed executive budgets for the department of education, commencing with fiscal biennium 2003-2005 and continuing thereafter through fiscal biennium 2007-2009, be prepared in accordance with zero-based budgeting principles, as specified and developed by the director of budget and finance in cooperation with the superintendent of education.

SECTION 2. (a) Notwithstanding chapter 37, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the contrary, the proposed budgets of the department of education shall be prepared in accordance with zero-based budgeting principles, as specified and developed by the director of finance in cooperation with the superintendent of education. These principles, which shall be applied to the preparation of the proposed budgets, shall include:

(1) Identification and description of each program activity;

(2) Statement of objectives of each program activity and output;

(3) Evaluation and ranking of program activities on the basis of cost-benefit analyses, and allocation of resources to program activities accordingly;

(4) Description and evaluation of qualitative and quantitative effects or impacts of funding program activities at fifty per cent, seventy-five per cent, one hundred per cent, one hundred twenty-five per cent, and one hundred fifty per cent of the funding level from the previous biennium;

(5) Estimation of effects of each funding level on proposed future expenditures and revenues, if any, estimated to be generated by program activities; and

(6) Identification of effects of each funding level on personnel requirements.

(b) Zero-based budgeting principles shall be applied to all department of education programs and sub-programs, including those under school-based budgeting, comprehensive school support services, instructional support, state and district administration, school support, school community service, physical plant operations and maintenance, and student transportation, and commencing with fiscal biennium 2003-2005 and continuing thereafter through fiscal biennium 2007-2009.

(c) All information developed for zero-based budgeting pursuant to this Act shall be made available to the auditor, the director of finance, the superintendent of education, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval and shall be repealed on June 30, 2009.

INTRODUCED BY:

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