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JOINT RESOLUTIONS
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No. 63*
(House Joint Resolution 119)
A House Joint Resolution concerning
Reduction/Increase Budget Format, Program
Evaluation and Coordination with Executive Plans
FOR the purpose of requesting the Governor to submit with
the FY 1979 budget bill a detailed list from each
agency of the programs, positions, and costs which
it would elect to cut or increase if its budget were
reduced by 10 percent or increased by 5 percent;
requesting that this list be accompanied by a plan
for retention of any State employees affected by
proposed program eliminations; and placing certain
conditions on transfers and retentions under any
proposed eliminations; requesting that the Governor
submit with the budget bill a statistical summary of
each program; and requesting that this information
be coordinated with the Executive Plans of the
agencies.
WHEREAS, Inflation in the cost of State government
has in recent years begun to outstrip the growth of State
revenues, forcing people of the State to choose between
tax increases or reductions in expenditures; and
WHEREAS, Under present budget procedures, the
executive delivers to the General Assembly a single-level
budget, requesting the executive's final decisions
concerning spending priorities, in balance with a revenue
estimate which also requests the executive's final
decisions concerning taxing policies and priorities, all
of which requires the General Assembly, if it is to
consider alternative levels of spending and taxing, to
develop such alternatives independently, to do so within
the relatively short time between delivery of the
executive's budget and the deadline for legislative
decision, in that benefit of input from the State
agencies; and
WHEREAS, The General Assembly in 1976 investigated
alternative budget procedures, including "zero-base
budgeting" as practiced in Georgia and elsewhere, and has
conducted a demonstration project in multiple-level
budget presentation with the Highway Maintenance Division
of the State Highway Administration, pursuant to House
Joint Resolution 142 (1976 Session); and
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