Bill Text: CT SB00356 | 2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Monthly Reports On Personnel Status For State Agencies.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-25 - Merged Into SB00359 [SB00356 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2010-SB00356-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 356
February Session, 2010		LCO No. 1339
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Referred to Committee on Appropriations
Introduced by:
(APP)

AN ACT CONCERNING MONTHLY REPORTS ON PERSONNEL STATUS FOR STATE AGENCIES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 4-66 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2010):

The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall have the following functions and powers: To keep on file information concerning the state's general accounts; to furnish all accounting statements relating to the financial condition of the state as a whole, to the condition and operation of state funds, to appropriations, to reserves and to costs of operations; to furnish such statements as and when they are required for administrative purposes and, at the end of each fiscal period, to prepare and publish such financial statements and data as will convey to the General Assembly the essential facts as to the financial condition, the revenues and expenditures and the costs of operations of the state government; to furnish to the State Comptroller on or before the twentieth day of each month cumulative monthly statements of revenues and expenditures to the end of the last-completed month together with (1) a statement of estimated revenue by source to the end of the fiscal year, at least in the same detail as appears in the budget act, and (2) a statement of appropriation requirements of the state's General Fund to the end of the fiscal year itemized as far as practicable for each budgeted agency, including estimates of lapsing appropriations, unallocated lapsing balances and unallocated appropriation requirements; to transmit to the Office of Fiscal Analysis a copy of monthly position data, which shall include for each state agency the positions vacated and the positions filled during such month, and monthly bond project run; to inquire into the operation of, and make or recommend improvement in, the methods employed in the preparation of the budget and the procedure followed in determining whether the funds expended by the departments, boards, commissions and institutions supported in whole or in part by the state are wisely, judiciously and economically expended and to submit such findings and recommendations to the General Assembly at each regular session, together with drafts of proposed legislation, if any; to examine each department, state college, state hospital, state-aided hospital, reformatory and prison and each other institution or other agency supported in whole or in part by the state, except public schools, for the purpose of determining the effectiveness of its policies, management, internal organization and operating procedures and the character, amount, quality and cost of the service rendered by each such department, institution or agency; to recommend, and to assist any such department, institution or agency to effect, improvements in organization, management methods and procedures and to report its findings and recommendations and submit drafts of proposed legislation, if any, to the General Assembly at each regular session; to consider and devise ways and means whereby comprehensive plans and designs to meet the needs of the several departments and institutions with respect to physical plant and equipment and whereby financial plans and programs for the capital expenditures involved may be made in advance and to make or assist in making such plans; to devise and prescribe the form of operating reports that shall be periodically required from the several departments, boards, commissions, institutions and agencies supported in whole or in part by the state; to require the several departments, boards, commissions, institutions and agencies to make such reports for such periods as said secretary may determine; to verify the correctness of, and to analyze, all such reports and to take such action as may be deemed necessary to remedy unsatisfactory conditions disclosed by such reports.

Sec. 2. Subsection (c) of section 4-77 of the 2010 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2010):

(c) The administrative head of each budgeted agency shall transmit, to the Office of Fiscal Analysis, copies of the agency's monthly (1) financial status report, (2) personnel status report, which shall include the positions vacated and the positions filled in the agency during such month, and (3) nonappropriated moneys status report which shall be an accounting of moneys received or held by the agency that are authorized or received by any manner other than as an appropriation. Such personnel status report shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. Such accounting of nonappropriated moneys shall include, at a minimum, an assessment of the status of any agency fund or account of such agency receiving or holding such moneys. Such assessments of such funds and accounts shall, at a minimum, account for all expenditures, encumbrances, liabilities, reimbursements and revenues.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2010	4-66
Sec. 2	July 1, 2010	4-77(c)

Statement of Purpose:

To provide the Office of Fiscal Analysis with state agency personnel data, including the positions that are vacated and filled each month.

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