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2016 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 274
BY SENATOR DONAHUE
FISCAL CONTROLS. Provides for the requirement of the division of administration to
produce a standstill budget. (7/1/16)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 39:29(A), 32(E)(3) and (7), and 36(B)(1)(c), (6), and (8), relative
3 to budgets; to provide for the budget office under the direction of the division of
4 administration to produce a standstill budget; to define and describe the elements of
5 the standstill budget; to provide for the utilization of the standstill budget in the
6 executive budget contents; to provide for an effective date; and to provide for related
7 matters.
8 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
9 Section 1. R.S. 39:29(A), 32(E)(3) and (7), and 36(B)(1)(c), (6), and (8) are hereby
10 amended and reenacted to read as follows:
11 §29. Budget guidelines
12 A.(1) On or before the twentieth day of September of each year, the budget
13 office shall furnish to each budget unit a set of specific guidelines under which the
14 budget unit shall provide information to allow the budget office to establish prepare
15 a standstill budget and a continuation budget.
16 (2) The standstill budget and the continuation budget shall each be
17 prepared by the budget office and submitted to the Joint Legislative Committee on
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1 the Budget at the first meeting of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget
2 after January first of each year.
3 (3) The budget office under the direction of the division of
4 administration shall define and describe the elements of the standstill budget.
5 At a minimum, the standstill budget shall be developed beginning with the
6 existing operating budget for the current fiscal year as the base and shall
7 include component adjustments as determined by the budget office, including
8 but not limited to:
9 (a) Compulsory adjustments that reflect activities imposed by one sphere
10 of government on another by constitutional, legislative, administrative, or
11 judicial action.
12 (b) Workload adjustments for activities that are based on demographic
13 or other significant environmental changes.
14 (c) Elimination or reduction of non-recurring items.
15 (d) Any other environmental factors affecting a program such as growth
16 or decline in the revenue and expenditure trends affecting a program.
17 (e) Annualizations of items that were initiated partway through a fiscal
18 year and must be continued in subsequent fiscal years on a twelve-month basis.
19 (4) The standstill budget shall not contain or include certain elements,
20 including but not limited to the following:
21 (a) Merit Increases/Performance Adjustments.
22 (b) Inflation Adjustments.
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24 §32. Budget request contents
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26 E. A personnel table as defined by this Subsection shall be included with the
27 budget request. The table shall contain information and be in a form as required by
28 the budget office and shall include authorized, estimated, and requested positions
29 organized according to programs or subprograms as follows:
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2 (3) The number of positions estimated for the standstill and the continuation
3 budget for the next fiscal year and the number classified and unclassified.
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5 (7) The estimated amount for salaries continuing for the positions estimated
6 for the standstill and the continuation budget for the next fiscal year.
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8 §36. Contents and format of executive budget; supporting document
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10 B. The budget office shall prepare a document known as the supporting
11 document which shall be in conformity with the executive budget and shall include,
12 at a minimum, the following:
13 (1) For each program, budget unit, and department, itemized by source of
14 funds, expenditure category, and activity, detailed comparative statements of:
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16 (c) The standstill budget and the continuation budget and recommended
17 expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year.
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19 (6) For each agency's programmatic structure, the performance indicators that
20 are intended to accomplish each objective of a program for the initial operating
21 budget and existing operating budget, the standstill budget and the continuation
22 budget, and recommended expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year and the
23 performance standard associated with each. Such performance indicators, objectives,
24 and standards shall be as the commissioner of administration may deem appropriate.
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26 (8) For each program, a listing of expenditures for the last fiscal year
27 concluded, the initial operating budget and existing operating budget, the standstill
28 budget and the continuation budget, and recommended expenditures for the ensuing
29 fiscal year out of each statutorily dedicated fund.
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2 Section 2. This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2016; if vetoed by the governor
3 and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become effective on July 1,
4 2016, or on the day following such approval by the legislature, whichever is later.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jay R. Lueckel.
DIGEST
SB 274 Original 2016 Regular Session Donahue
Present law provides that the budget office under the direction of the division of
administration shall furnish each budget unit a set of guidelines to allow the office to
establish a continuation budget. The continuation budget is defined as that funding level for
each budget unit which reflects the financial resources necessary to carry on all existing
programs and functions of the budget unit at their current level of service in the ensuing
fiscal year.
Proposed law retains present law and requires the budget office to also prepare a standstill
budget as well as a continuation budget. Additionally, both budgets shall be submitted to
the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget at the first meeting in January of each year.
Proposed law provides that the elements of the standstill budget, to be defined and developed
by the budget office under the direction of the division of administration, shall begin with
the existing operating budget for the current fiscal year as the base and shall include
component adjustments as determined by the budget office, including but not limited to:
(1)Compulsory adjustments that reflect activities imposed by one sphere of government
on another by constitutional, legislative, administrative, or judicial action.
(2)Workload adjustments for activities that are based on demographic or other
significant environmental changes.
(3)Elimination or reduction of non-recurring items.
(4)Any other environmental factors affecting a program such as growth or decline in the
revenues and expenditures trends affecting a program.
(5)Annualizations of items that were initiated partway through a fiscal year and must
be continued in subsequent fiscal years on a twelve-month basis.
Proposed law provides for the elements that shall not be included in the standstill budget:
(1)Merit Increases/Performance Adjustments.
(2)Inflation Adjustments.
Proposed law also provides for implementation of the standstill budget in the executive
budget contents and format of the executive budget.
Effective July 1, 2016.
(Amends R.S. 39:29(A), 32(E)(3) and (7), and 36(B)(1)(c), (6), and (8))
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