{"id":3037,"date":"2023-11-10T09:41:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/budget.utah.gov\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2023-11-28T16:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:01:56","slug":"2023-interim-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/budget.utah.gov\/2023-interim-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim Recap: Outcomes of the 2023 Accountable Budget Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During the 2019 General Session, the Legislature passed H.J.R. 18<\/a>, which amended Joint Rule 3-2-501<\/a>. The bill requires each of the seven topical appropriations subcommittees to scrutinize twenty percent of their assigned budgets in a practice called the Accountable Budget Process <\/em>(ABP). The goal of this interim review is to come away with an Accountable Process Budget<\/em>, which becomes the base budget for reviewed agencies during the following general session. Examining budgets during the “offseason” provides a leg up for policy makers and staff ahead of the fast and furious 45-day General Session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each May, Subcommittees submit their plans for the ABP<\/a> to the Executive Appropriations Committee, detailing 5-year plans to review each line item in their purview. This process started in 2019, with a one-year hiatus during the 2020 interim. In 2024, the ABP will be in its fifth year, completing the full cycle of reviewing the entire state budget. For a bit more detail on the ABP, see this post from June 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the 2021 General Session, the Legislature passed S.B. 142<\/a>, \u201cPublic Education Funding Amendments\u201d which directed the Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee to complete an evaluation of the funding structure for public education in lieu of the ABP. UCA 53E-1-202.2<\/a> outlines two phases for the evaluation, with specific study items for the committee to consider, and then report their recommendations to the Executive Appropriations Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 Accountable Budget Process Outcomes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the table below, you\u2019ll find documents linked to recommendations considered by each subcommittee along with a summary of actions taken. (Mobile users may view this table better in landscape orientation.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appropriations Subcommittee<\/strong><\/td>Agencies Reviewed<\/strong><\/td>Recommendations<\/strong><\/td>Voting Results<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Business, Economic Development, and Labor<\/td>DABS, Insurance, Public Service Commission<\/td>Recommendations Document<\/em><\/a><\/td>Approved items 5 and 6.<\/td><\/tr>
Executive Offices and Criminal Justice<\/td>Incarceration (Post-Adjudication)<\/td>Recommendations Document<\/em><\/a><\/td>Took no action, will revisit recommendations in the General Session.<\/td><\/tr>
Higher Education<\/td>Budget reflecting all sources of revenue and expenditure<\/td>1. Recommendations Presentation<\/em><\/a>
2. EAC Presentation<\/a><\/em><\/td>		Accepted all recommendations.<\/td><\/tr>
Infrastructure and General Government<\/td>Capital Budget, Department of Government Operations non-ISF
programs<\/td>		Recommendations Document<\/em><\/a><\/td>Accepted all recommendations, removing \u201cDGO\u201d from items 11b and 11e.<\/td><\/tr>
Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environmental Quality<\/td>Office of Energy Development, Water Rights, Water Resources Funds, Wildlife Resources<\/td>Recommendations Document<\/em><\/a><\/td>Accepted recommendations 9-20.<\/td><\/tr>
Public Education<\/td>Minimum School Program and Performance Measures for Education<\/td>Motions on Interim Study Items<\/a><\/em><\/td>Approved items 1,2, 4 and 5, and to discuss item 3 during session.<\/td><\/tr>
Social Services<\/td>Medicaid Administration, Workforce Operations and Policy, Office of Recovery Services, Aging and Adult Services<\/td>Recommendations Document with Results<\/a><\/em><\/td>Approved recommendations in the document.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the 2019 General Session, the Legislature passed H.J.R. 18, which amended Joint Rule 3-2-501. The bill requires each of the seven topical appropriations subcommittees to scrutinize twenty percent of their assigned budgets in a practice called the Accountable Budget Process (ABP). The goal of this interim review is to come away with an Accountable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/budget.utah.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/budget.utah.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/budget.utah.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budget.utah.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budget.utah.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/budget.utah.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3080,"href":"https:\/\/budget.utah.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/3080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budget.utah.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/budget.utah.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budget.utah.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budget.utah.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}