SB 703

Current law requires the governor to prepare and submit to the legislature an

executive budget bill or bills that contain the governor's recommendations for

appropriations in the succeeding fiscal biennium. The governor may submit these

appropriation recommendations in a single bill or in a multitude of bills. In recent

history, the practice has been for the governor to submit a single executive budget

bill. This bill requires the governor to prepare and submit to the legislature multiple

executive budget bills. Each bill may contain only the governor's recommendations

for appropriations for the succeeding biennium from a single fund. In other words,

an executive budget bill may not appropriate moneys from more than one fund.

The bill also creates a legislative rule of proceeding that provides that no house

of the legislature may pass a bill that transfers money from one fund to another fund

unless the bill is approved by two-thirds of those members present and voting.

Current law requires each executive branch state agency to submit its biennial

budget request to the Department of Administrative and the Legislative Fiscal

Bureau no later than September 15 of the even-numbered year. These requests are

used for the purpose of preparing the executive budget bill. This bill provides that

each executive branch state agency must submit its biennial budget requests

prepared using the principles of results-based budgeting for each of its activities,

units, and programs. Under the bill, "results-based budgeting" is defined as the

compilation of a budget of a state agency in which objectives are established for each

of the state agency's activities, units, and programs; in which resources are allocated

specifically to achieving the objectives; in which objective performance indicators are

developed to determine whether the state agency has achieved the objectives; and

in which an evaluation is undertaken to determine whether the objectives have been

achieved using the performance indicators.

2009 Wisconsin Act 28

, the biennial budget act, eliminated a program that

required, every fiscal biennium, one-third of all state agencies to prepare a base

budget review report that contains a description of each programmatic activity of the

state agency; an accounting of all expenditures in each of the prior three fiscal years,

arranged by revenue source and expenditure category for that state agency; and, for

each programmatic activity of the state agency, an accounting of all expenditures,

arranged by revenue source and expenditure category in the last two quarters in

each of the prior three fiscal years. This bill recreates the requirement for state

agencies to prepare base budget review reports.