SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 696
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS CAUTHORN, KLINDT, GROSS, CHILDERS AND GIBBONS.
Pre-filed December 1, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
3161S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 33.803, RSMo, relating to performance-based budgeting for state departments, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 33.803, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 33.803, to read as follows:
33.803. 1. [Detail base] Performance-based review procedures [may] shall be designed to:
(1) Operate on a defined rotating basis requiring the detailed review of specified departments or agencies in a particular fiscal year; or
(2) Provide for random review of specific departments or agencies on the basis of perceived needs and requirements of the state budget.
2. [Detail base] Performance-based review shall be required by the budget and appropriations committees and the selection of the department or agency or program shall be made on a rotating basis, with a majority concurrence of the chairman of the house budget committee, the chairman of the senate appropriations committee and the director of the division of budget and planning[. The review, whether on a defined rotating basis or on a random basis, may be applied to the]; provided that, every department, division or agency shall be reviewed at least once every five years after January 1, 2004. The chairman of the house budget committee, the chairman of the senate appropriations committee and the director of the division of budget and planning shall decide what the review will cover, which may include the:
(1) Entire budget of the department or agency;
(2) Budget subclasses as detailed by the office of administration; or
(3) Selected programs.
3. The performance-based review procedures described in subsection 2 of this section shall be based on a cost/outcome or cost/performance analysis which shall be developed, based on guidance from the division of budget and planning, by the department, division or agency for its individual services and programs.
[3.] 4. Where similar programs or services are provided by more than one department or agency, the [detail base] performance-based review procedures may provide for a review and investigation of the program or service level on an interagency or interdepartmental basis in an effort to consolidate such programs or services.