Bill Text: HI SB1298 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Six-Year Program and Financial Plan; Operating Costs for Capital Improvements
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-23 - Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-13 3:00PM in conference room 309. [SB1298 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1298-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO STATE FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 37-67, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§37-67[]]
Responsibilities of the department of budget and finance. The director of
finance shall assist the governor in the preparation, explanation and
administration of the state long-range plans, the proposed six-year program and
financial plan and the state budget. To this end, subject to this part, the
director shall:
(1) With the approval of the governor, develop
procedures and prescribe rules and regulations to guide such state agencies as
may be assigned by the director the task of formulating and preparing the
initial proposals with respect to long-range plans, program and financial
plans, program budget requests, and program performance reports and to
assure the availability of information needed for effective policy
decision-making[.], including projected operating costs for all
capital improvements;
(2) Assist such state agencies in the formulation of
program objectives, preparation of program plans and program budget requests,
and reporting of program performance[.];
(3) Coordinate, analyze, and revise, as
necessary, the program objectives, long-range plans, program and
financial plans, program budget requests, and program performance
reports, including projected operating costs for all capital improvements
that were initially proposed or prepared by such state agencies and develop
the state comprehensive program and financial plan, budget, and program
performance report[.];
(4) Administer its responsibilities under the program
execution provisions of this part so that the policy decisions and budget
determinations of the governor and the legislature are implemented to the
fullest extent possible within the concepts of proper management[.];
(5) Investigate continuously the administration of
the various agencies for the purpose of advising the governor and recommending
to the governor, the legislature, and the committees of the legislature
concerning the duties of the various positions in these agencies, the methods
of the agency, the standards of efficiency therein, and changes which in the
director's judgment will produce greater effectiveness of programs and economy
in the conduct of government programs, and assist in the preparation of
program and financial plans, budget requests, and program performance
reports[.]; and
(6) Provide the legislature and any member or
committee of either house of the legislature with [such] documents and
information, as may be requested, concerning the programs,
budget, and fiscal and management operations of the State."
SECTION 2. Section 37-69, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
"(d) The program plans for the ensuing six fiscal years shall more specifically include:
(1) At the lowest level on the state program structure, for each program:
(A) A statement of its objectives;
(B) Measures by which the effectiveness in attaining the objectives is to be assessed;
(C) The level of effectiveness planned for each of the ensuing six fiscal years;
(D) A brief description of the activities encompassed;
(E) The program size indicators;
(F) The program size planned for each of the next six fiscal years;
(G) A narrative explanation of the plans for the program. It shall contain, and in general be limited to, the following:
(i) A description of the kinds of activities carried out or unusual technologies employed;
(ii) A statement of key policies pursued;
(iii) Identification of important program or organizational relationships involved;
(iv) A description of major external trends affecting the program;
(v) A discussion of significant discrepancies between previously planned cost, effectiveness, and program size levels and those actually achieved;
(vi) Comments on, and an interpretation of, cost, effectiveness, and program size data over the upcoming budget period, with special attention devoted to changes from the current budget period;
(vii) Comments on, and an interpretation of, cost, effectiveness, and program size data over the four years of the planning period and how they relate to the corresponding data for the budget period; and
(viii) A summary of the special analytic study, program evaluation, or other analytic report supporting a substantial change in the program where such a major program change recommendation has been made;
(H) The full cost implications of the recommended programs, including projected operating costs for all capital improvements, by cost categories and cost elements, actually experienced in the last completed fiscal year, estimated for the fiscal year in progress, and estimated for each of the next six fiscal years. The means of financing shall be identified for each cost category. The personal services cost element and the lease payments cost element shall be shown separately; the cost elements of other current expenses, equipment, and motor vehicles may be combined. The number of positions included in the program shall be appropriately identified by means of financing;
(I) A recapitulation of subparagraph (H) for the last completed fiscal year, the fiscal year in progress and each of the next six fiscal years, by means of financing grouped under each cost category. The number of positions included in any program shall be appropriately identified;
(J) An identification of the revenues generated in the last completed fiscal year and estimated to be generated in the fiscal year in progress and in each of the next six fiscal years, and the fund into which such revenues are deposited;
(K) Details of implementation of each capital improvement project included in the total program cost, including:
(i) A description of the project, location, and scope;
(ii) The initially estimated, currently estimated, and final cost of the project, including projected operating costs for all capital improvements, by investment and operating cost elements and by means of financing;
(iii) The amounts previously appropriated by the legislature for the project, by cost elements and by means of financing specified in the acts appropriating the sums, and an identification of the acts so appropriating;
(iv) The costs incurred in the last completed fiscal year and the estimated costs to be incurred in the fiscal year in progress and in each of the next six fiscal years, by cost elements and by means of financing; and
(v) A commencement and completion schedule, by month and year, of the various phases of the capital improvement project (i.e., land acquisition, design, construction, and occupancy) as originally intended, as currently estimated, and as actually experienced; and
(L) A crosswalk of the program expenditures, by cost categories and cost elements between the program and expending agencies for the next two fiscal years. The means of financing and the number of positions included in the program costs to be expended by each agency shall be specified; and
(2) Appropriate displays at every level of the state program structure above the lowest level. The displays shall include:
(A) A listing of all major groupings of programs included within the level, together with the objectives, measures of effectiveness, and planned levels of effectiveness for each of the ensuing six fiscal years for each such major groupings of programs; and
(B) A summary of the total cost of each cost category by the major groupings of programs encompassed within the level, actual for the last completed fiscal year and estimated for the fiscal year in progress and for each of the next six fiscal years."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Six-Year Program and Financial Plan; Operating Costs for Capital Improvements
Description:
Requires that projected operating costs of all capital improvements be included in the six-year program and financial plan.
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