Performance-based budgeting practices: legislative review.

Existing law establishes a joint legislative committee, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, to ascertain facts and make recommendations to the Legislature and the houses thereof concerning the state budget, the revenues and expenditures of the state, the organization and functions of the state, its departments, subdivisions, and agencies, and other matters. This bill would require, on or before April 1, 2015, the Department of Finance to submit a report to the Legislature on the progress of state agencies that have utilized performance-based budgeting practices since the implementation of a specified executive order. The California Constitution vests the Legislature with the power of appropriation and requires the Legislature to pass the budget bill by midnight on June 15 of each year. The bill would expressly state that the budget committees of each house of the Legislature may consider information from the report described above and that the Legislature may withhold or modify appropriations for state agencies that do not comply with the specified executive order.