SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE JOINT

RESOLUTION NO. 41

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BARTLE.

Read 1st time January 23, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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JOINT RESOLUTION

Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri an amendment repealing sections 23 and 24 of article IV of the Constitution of Missouri, and adopting two new sections in lieu thereof relating to the state budgeting process.



Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring therein:

That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2002, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to article IV of the Constitution of the state of Missouri:

Section A. Sections 23 and 24, article IV, Constitution of Missouri, are repealed and two new sections adopted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 23 and 24, to read as follows:

Section 23. The fiscal year of the state and all its agencies shall be the twelve months beginning on the first day of July in each year. The general assembly shall make appropriations for [one or] two fiscal years[, and the sixty-third general assembly shall also make appropriations for the six months ending June 30, 1945]. Every appropriation law shall distinctly specify the amount and purpose of the appropriation without reference to any other law to fix the amount or purpose.

Section 24. The governor shall, within thirty days after it convenes in each regular session, submit to the general assembly a budget for the ensuing appropriation period, containing the estimated available revenues of the state and a complete and itemized plan of proposed expenditures of the state and all its agencies, together with [his] any recommendations of any laws necessary to provide revenues sufficient to meet the expenditures. The governor's budget plan for each appropriation period shall use zero-based budgeting. Performance evaluations shall be conducted during the second fiscal year of each appropriation period. Each budget plan shall rank by cost effectiveness every line item, and agencies shall provide the general assembly with an estimate of the number of persons directly or indirectly affected by each line item.


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