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SCA-3 State budget.(2003-2004)

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2003–2004 5th Ext.

Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 3

Introduced  by  Senator Machado

December 03, 2003

A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by amending Section 12 of Article IV thereof, relating to the state budget.


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SCA 3, as introduced, Machado. State budget.
The California Constitution requires that a budget be submitted by the Governor, and that a Budget Bill be passed by the Legislature, for each fiscal year.
This measure would provide that, for the 2004–05 fiscal year, the Budget Bill passed by the Legislature may not appropriate an amount from the General Fund that, combined with all other appropriations from the General Fund for that fiscal year as of the date of the Budget Bill’s passage, exceeds 99% of the General Fund revenues estimated to be available to the state for that fiscal year. The estimate must be set forth in the Budget Bill after its reliability is certified by the Legislative Analyst. For all subsequent years, the Budget Bill may not appropriate from the General Fund an amount that, combined with all other General Fund appropriations for the same fiscal year, would exceed the total appropriations from the General Fund for the prior fiscal year, adjusted for changes in the cost of living and the population of the state, as specified.
Vote: 2/3   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  
Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California at its 2003–04 Fifth Extraordinary Session commencing on the eighteenth day of November 2003, two-thirds of the membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to the people of the State of California that the Constitution of the State be amended by amending Section 12 of Article IV thereof as follows:

SEC. 12.

 (a) Within the first 10 days of each calendar year, the Governor shall submit to the Legislature, with an explanatory message, a budget for the ensuing fiscal year containing itemized statements for recommended state expenditures and estimated state revenues. If recommended expenditures exceed estimated revenues, the Governor shall recommend the sources from which the additional revenues should be provided.
(b) The Governor and the Governor-elect may require a state agency, officer, or employee to furnish whatever information is deemed necessary to prepare the budget.
(c) (1) The budget shall be accompanied by a budget bill itemizing recommended expenditures. The
(2) The bill shall be introduced immediately in each house by the persons chairing the committees that consider appropriations. The the budget.
(3) The Legislature shall pass the budget bill by midnight on June 15 of each year. Until the budget bill has been enacted, the Legislature shall not send to the Governor for consideration any bill appropriating funds for expenditure during the fiscal year for which the budget bill is to be enacted, except emergency bills recommended by the Governor or appropriations for the salaries and expenses of the Legislature.
(4) For the 2004–05 fiscal year, the budget bill as passed by the Legislature may not appropriate from the General Fund, for that fiscal year, a total amount that, combined with all other appropriations from the General Fund for that fiscal year enacted as of the date of the budget bill’s passage, exceeds an amount equal to 99 percent of the General Fund revenues that are estimated to be available to the State for that fiscal year. The estimate shall be expressly set forth in the budget bill, and certified as reliable by the Legislative Analyst prior to its inclusion in the budget bill.
(5) For the 2005–06 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, the budget bill as passed by the Legislature may not appropriate from the General Fund, for that fiscal year, a total amount that, combined with all other appropriations from the General Fund for that fiscal year enacted as of the date of the budget bill’s passage, exceeds the total of all appropriations from the General Fund for the prior year, adjusted for the change in the cost of living and the change in population, as calculated for that fiscal year pursuant to Article XIII B.
(d) No bill except Except for the budget bill, a bill may not contain more than one item of appropriation, and that for one certain, expressed purpose. Appropriations from the General Fund of the State, except appropriations for the public schools, are void unless passed in each house by rollcall vote entered in the journal, two thirds two-thirds of the membership concurring.
(e) The Legislature may control the submission, approval, and enforcement of budgets and the filing of claims for all state agencies.