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2001 SESSION

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HJ 773 Study; state spending.

Introduced by: Vincent F. Callahan, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Growth in spending by the Commonwealth since Fiscal Year 1981. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to analyze the growth in spending by the Commonwealth since Fiscal Year 1981. In conducting the study, the Commission shall consider, among other things, (i) an identification and analysis of spending functions and programs that could be consolidated with other programs without diminishing the quality of the services provided to the citizens of the Commonwealth; (ii) an identification and analysis of those spending functions or programs that no longer have a distinct and discernible mission or are not performing their missions efficiently; (iii) an identification and analysis of the state programs that have had the largest impact on the growth of state spending over the prior 10 biennia, in dollar terms; (iv) an identification and analysis of the programs growing the fastest in percentage terms; (v) for the programs identified as the largest and fastest-growing, comparisons of the growth in spending on those programs to the rate of increase in inflation and the growth in populations served by those programs over a comparable time period; (vi) an analysis of the causes for the growth in spending on the largest and fastest-growing programs, and whether the growth in spending appears rationally related to the rates of increase in inflation and populations served; (vii) an analysis of the use of performance budgeting, performance measurement, and program evaluation information in the legislative budgeting process and how the information may be more systematically used for program improvement and budget decision-making by legislators; (viii) a detailed analysis of the operations and expenditures of state funds by private organizations and groups, for the purpose of demanding a full, complete and accurate accounting of those funds, as well as demonstrable evidence that the public policy goals have been accomplished by their expenditure; (ix) policies and strategies that can be instituted or restructured to more efficiently and effectively spend such funds; (x) the cancellation of programs that fail to meet the stated purpose of their funding, or fail to provide a satisfactory accounting of their expenditures; and (xi) such other related issues as it deems appropriate. The aforementioned objectives represent the incorporation of HJR 563 (McQuigg) and HJR 806 (Ware).


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