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SCS/SBs 299 & 40 - This act provides that the Budget Director must develop and implement a performance-based budgeting system that establishes goals and objectives, provides detailed measures of program and fund performance against attainment of planned outcomes, and provides for program evaluation. The Governor may consider outcome measures used for each program and fund as compared with the attainment of the established goals and objectives of the program and fund over the past three fiscal years in preparing budget recommendations to the General Assembly. The General Assembly shall consider such outcome measures and attainment of goals and objectives for each program and fund in approving appropriation levels for each program and fund.

The Governor's budget recommendations, which are annually submitted to the General Assembly, shall include all outcome measures and attainment of established goals and objectives of each program and fund for the past three fiscal years and the projected outcome measures for each program and fund for the current fiscal year and the next two fiscal years, the most recent reports done by the State Auditor's office, and any evaluations done by the Oversight Division of the Committee on Legislative Research.

The act requires a performance based budgeting review of each department and agency at least once every five years, beginning after January 1, 2005. The chairpersons of the House Budget Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee and the Director of the Division of Budget and Planning shall review the outcome measures used for programs and funds within the department, division or agency being reviewed.

JIM ERTLE