Bill Text: CT SB00359 | 2010 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut Senate Bill 359 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Reporting By State Agencies.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-22 - Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate [SB00359 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2010-SB00359-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly		*Substitute Bill No. 359*
*February Session, 2010*		_____SB00359CE____042210____

AN ACT CONCERNING REPORTING BY STATE AGENCIES.

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

Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) The State Comptroller, or the State Comptroller's designee, in consultation with the director of the legislative Office of Fiscal Analysis, or the director's designee, and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, or the secretary's designee, shall develop a plan to enhance the capacity of the CORE-CT system to categorize state expenditures, contracts, projects and employees by the budgeted state programs with which each is associated. Such plan shall include the means by which (1) state agencies shall enter information for purposes of such categorization into the CORE-CT system and keep the information updated, which may include the use of computer format codes, (2) such data shall be retrievable, and (3) the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall provide to the Office of Fiscal Analysis an electronic version of all data generated by the CORE-CT system that is used to prepare the budget document transmitted to the General Assembly in accordance with section 4-71 of the general statutes. On or before January 1, 2011, the State Comptroller, the director of the legislative Office of Fiscal Analysis and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall jointly submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, on the plan. Such report shall include a summary of the plan and the estimated date by which the plan will be fully implemented.

(b) On or before January 1, 2011, the State Comptroller, or the State Comptroller's designee, the director of the legislative Office of Fiscal Analysis, or the director's designee, and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, or the secretary's designee, shall jointly submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies and finance, revenue and bonding on the feasibility of using the CORE-CT system to develop state budgets and to allow the Office of the Comptroller, the legislative Office of Fiscal Analysis and the Office of Policy and Management to monitor implementation of such budgets.

Sec. 2. Subsection (r) of section 32-9t of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2010):

(r) (1) Not later than July first in each year that credits allowed by this section are claimed by a taxpayer with respect to an approved investment, the commissioner [may] shall retain such persons as said commissioner may deem appropriate to conduct a study to estimate the state revenue that is being and will be generated by the eligible project in which such investment is made. Such economic impact study shall determine whether the state revenue actually generated by such eligible project is equal to the estimate of state revenue made at the time the investment in such eligible project was approved. If the sum of all state revenue actually generated by such eligible project is less than the amount of the total sum of tax credits claimed with respect to the approved investment in such project on the date of such analysis, the commissioner may determine from the person retained pursuant to this subsection the applicable recapture amount and may revoke the certificate of eligibility issued under subsection (h) of this section. The commissioner may require the taxpayer, the fund manager or community development entity that made such approved investment to reimburse the commissioner for all or any part of the cost of any economic impact study performed under this subsection.

(2) On and after July 1, 2010, the commissioner shall, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, provide a copy of any economic impact study produced pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection, along with (A) a summary of the key findings of the study, and (B) a summary of the data provided by the taxpayer, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to commerce and finance, revenue and bonding.

Sec. 3. 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, (A) a copy of position data, [and monthly] which shall include for each state agency the positions vacated and the positions filled during such month, (B) a bond project run, and (C) a report on the availability of federal funds, including those available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and the status of applications submitted for such funds; 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. 4. Subsection (d) of section 12-7b of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2010):

(d) The Commissioner of Revenue Services shall submit to the legislative Office of Fiscal Analysis a monthly report (1) concerning the sales and use taxes, including [(1)] (A) gross receipts subject to sales tax, stated separately in respect to each category of sales, from sales of any tangible personal property, the leasing or rental of tangible personal property and the rendering of any services subject to said tax, [(2)] (B) total consideration for purchases subject to the use tax, stated separately for each category, in respect to any tangible personal property, the leasing or rental of tangible personal property and the rendering of any services, [(3)] (C) total amount of deductions related to each of the separate provisions for exemption under chapter 219, and [(4)] (D) total amount of tax collected with respect to each of the industrial classifications included in the Standard Industrial Classification Code in current use for purposes of certain statistical data by the Commissioner of Revenue Services, provided the data required in this [subdivision] subparagraph may, at the discretion of said commissioner be submitted, in lieu of the monthly submission as otherwise required in this section, within thirty days following the end of each calendar quarter commencing with the calendar quarter ending June 30, 1992, and (2) showing cash flows for each budgeted agency, as defined in section 4-69, for such month.

Sec. 5. 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	from passage	New section
Sec. 2	July 1, 2010	32-9t(r)
Sec. 3	July 1, 2010	4-66
Sec. 4	July 1, 2010	12-7b(d)
Sec. 5	July 1, 2010	4-77(c)