The California state finances is the biggest within the nation, and it additionally represents the biggest invoice in web page size and variety of provisions. Whereas its provisions are too many to cowl, there are a variety of them which might be distinctive and readers ought to concentrate on them. This text is the primary in a sequence.

So, what are a few of these distinctive provisions of California’s Price range Invoice?

Title

The Title of every California invoice incorporates an announcement of what the invoice does (amend, add, repeal, or a mix of these) to a number of sections of a number of of the 29 Codes, mixed with the “relating clause” (typically the subject material of the invoice). The California Price range Invoice’s Title is completely different, as follows:

An act making appropriations for the help of the federal government of the State of California and for a number of public functions in accordance with the provisions of Part 12 of Article IV of the Structure of the State of California, regarding the state finances, to take impact instantly, finances invoice.

Legislative Counsel’s Digest

The Legislative Counsel’s Digest is required in each invoice upon the invoice’s introductions with an goal rationalization of present regulation and what this invoice would do. The primary paragraph at all times begins with “Present regulation….” And the subsequent paragraph at all times begins with “This invoice would…” Within the annual finances invoice’s Digest, there isn’t a assertion of present regulation (as a result of the finances is an uncodified statute that’s modified annually). The California Price range Invoice’s Digest is as follows:

This invoice would make appropriations for the help of state authorities for the 2022–23 fiscal 12 months.

This invoice would declare that it’s to take impact instantly as a Price range Invoice.

DIGEST KEY

Vote: majority   Appropriation: sure   Fiscal Committee: sure   Native Program: no  

Named Act

Occasionally, payments within the California Legislature are named acts. That happens with the annual finances invoice. The California Price range Invoice’s naming is as follows:

SECTION 1.00.

This act shall be recognized and could also be cited because the “Price range Act of 2022.”

Explanatory Provisions

In solely the state finances invoice are there explanatory provisions, together with an announcement of legislative intent, in regards to the format and elegance of what’s contained within the invoice. There are a number of provisions of the Authorities Code relevant to this space of the finances invoice, together with the next:

Title 2, Division 3, Half 3, Chapter 3, Article 3 (“Revised Budgeting and Accounting System for Fiscal Affairs of State Authorities”) consists of Part 13338:

(a) The Price range Invoice shall make the most of a coding scheme suitable with the Governor’s Price range and with the information of the Controller.

(b) The Price range Invoice shall present for the appropriation of federal funds obtained by the state and deposited within the State Treasury.

Article 3 additionally consists of Part 13344:

(a) State businesses shall put together and keep monetary and accounting information for inclusion within the Governor’s Price range, Price range Act and associated paperwork, and the budgetary-legal foundation annual report described in Part 12460, in keeping with the strategies and bases supplied in laws, finances letters, and different directives of the Division of Finance.

The California Price range Invoice incorporates the next as a customary introductory part:

SEC. 1.50.

(a) In accordance with Sections 12460, 13338, and 13344 of the Authorities Code, it’s the intent of the Legislature that this act and different monetary transactions licensed outdoors of this act make the most of a coding scheme or construction suitable with the Governor’s Price range, the information of the Controller in legacy techniques, and the Monetary Info System for California (FI$Cal), and supply for the appropriation of federal funds obtained by the state and deposited within the State Treasury.

(b) Primarily, the format and elegance are as follows:

(1) Appropriation merchandise numbers have a construction which is frequent to all of the state’s fiscal techniques. The which means of this construction is as follows:

2720—​Enterprise Unit (generally known as group code in legacy techniques, signifies the division or entity) (e.g., 2720 represents the Division of the California Freeway Patrol)

001—​Reference Code (signifies whether or not the merchandise is from the Price range Act or another supply and its character (e.g., 001–100 represents state operations within the Price range Act))

0044—​Fund Code (e.g., 0044 represents the Motor Car Account, State Transportation Fund)

(2) Appropriation objects are organized in Enterprise Unit order.

(3) All of the appropriation objects, reappropriation objects, and reversion objects, if any, for every enterprise unit are adjoining to 1 one other.

(4) Federal funds obtained by the state and deposited within the State Treasury are appropriated in separate objects.

(c) The Division of Finance might authorize revisions to the codes or buildings used on this act or utilized in different spending authority outdoors of this act to supply compatibility between the codes or buildings used on this act or in different spending authority outdoors of this act and people used within the Governor’s Price range, within the information of the Controller in legacy techniques, and in FI$Cal.

(d) However some other regulation, the Division of Finance might revise the schedule of any appropriation made on this act or in different spending authority outdoors of this act the place the revision is of a technical nature and is in line with legislative intent. These revisions might embody, however shall not be restricted to, the distribution of any unallocated quantities inside an appropriation and the adjustment of schedules to facilitate departmental accounting operations. These revisions shall embody a certification that the revisions adjust to the intent and limitation of expenditures as appropriated by the Legislature.

(e) However some other regulation, and in accordance with legislative intent, the Division of Finance might authorize technical modifications or corrections in FI$Cal or the Controller’s legacy techniques ensuing from or associated to the conversion or implementation of FI$Cal for the present or previous fiscal years, together with, however not restricted to, any of the next:

(1) Corrections to errors inadvertently created throughout the information conversion course of from legacy techniques into FI$Cal.

(2) Corrections or modifications associated to renumbering of applications and capital outlay initiatives. FI$Cal requires a unique numbering scheme for the applications, components, elements, and duties and initiatives. A brand new set of numbers is being utilized in FI$Cal completely different from what’s mirrored in prior finances acts and different authorizing sources. A complete crosswalk facilitates the interpretation from applications, components, elements, and duties to applications and subprograms and initiatives.

(3) Corrections or modifications needed to make sure compatibility among the many legacy techniques of the Controller and departments, and with that of FI$Cal. A number of coding techniques and buildings (or chart of accounts) are being utilized throughout the transition interval and till all departments and the Controller’s management features are absolutely carried out in FI$Cal.

Because the reader can see, these provisions of the state finances invoice comprise a number of necessary info. For instance, a constant “coding scheme” is utilized in all budget-related acts, together with the appropriation of federal funds.