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AN ACT
RELATING TO THE GOVERNMENT RESULTS AND OPPORTUNITY EXPENDABLE
TRUST; REQUIRING STATE AGENCIES TO SUBMIT AN ACCOUNTABILITY
AND EVALUATION PLAN FOR PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS THAT RECEIVE
FUNDING FROM THE TRUST TO THE STATE BUDGET DIVISION OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION AND THE LEGISLATIVE
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. A new section of the Accountability in
Government Act is enacted to read:
"PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GOVERNMENT RESULTS
AND OPPORTUNITY EXPENDABLE TRUST--ACCOUNTABILITY AND
EVALUATION PLANS.--
A. The division and the committee shall develop
instructions for agencies to submit an accountability and
evaluation plan for each program or project that is funded by
an appropriation from the government results and opportunity
expendable trust. An accountability and evaluation plan
shall, for each program or project:
(1) identify the goals, objectives and
expected outputs and outcomes;
(2) describe the specific activities of the
program or project and how those activities will achieve
expected outcomes; HB 181
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(3) provide a summary of whether the program
or project is evidence-based, research-based, promising or
does not yet have rigorous research on its effectiveness;
(4) provide a list of performance measures
and a monitoring plan to regularly assess performance;
(5) provide an evaluation plan to assess the
causal impact on expected outcomes; and
(6) describe the methods and time line for
releasing accountability and evaluation results to the
division, the committee and the public.
B. On or before May 1 of each year, the division
shall notify each agency required to submit an accountability
and evaluation plan. The agency shall submit the plan to the
division and the committee on or before July 1 of the year
the appropriation is made and, if the division and committee
require, a revised plan on or before September 1 of the same
year.
C. On or before July 15 of the final year of an
appropriation for a program or project, the division and the
committee shall consider the evaluation performed on the
program or project and make recommendations regarding
inclusion of the program in the agency's budget for the
following fiscal year."