STANDARDIZE BUDGET PROCESS

Urges the General Assembly to implement numerous budgeting practices to standardize the annual budget process. Urges the General Assembly to not approve the expenditure of funds for new programs and services without providing an examination of the cost/benefit analysis of said program or service and a finding that the addition of the new program or service provides significant long-term benefit to the State's fiscal health by realizing cost savings or meets an overriding public policy need. Urges the General Assembly to conduct such an analysis at the committee level, with each substantive and appropriations committee creating a working subcommittee to consider such measures and evaluate the aforementioned criteria.