Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires a state agency to use a zero-base budget approach when submitting budget proposals.

Highlights:

• Requires a state agency to use a zero-base budgeting approach by justifying each expenditure as though it were a new expenditure (Sec. 1).

• Requires a state agency to prioritize all estimated expenditures in relation to the other expenditures transmitted, whereas existing law appropriated 75 percent of the funding from the current fiscal year to the next fiscal year and required the remainder of the estimate expenditures to be prioritized by program (Sec. 1).

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