Section 1 of the bill establishes a standing meeting on the first Monday in March, July, and November whereby members of the executive committee of the legislative council and the joint budget committee (committees) are able to receive information from the executive branch related to a disaster if the governor has declared a disaster emergency in the last 120 days. During the meeting, the governor or his or her designee is to appear before the committees to provide information of a comprehensive nature and respond to questions from the committees with respect to the disaster emergency. There is no meeting if there was no disaster emergency declaration since the last meeting date or if a majority of the members of the committees waive the meeting in writing.
The bill requires the governor and any state agency to promptly give notice to the general assembly of the promulgation of any executive order or other order by the governor or the agency, as applicable, issued in connection with the disaster emergency.
Section 2 requires the office of state planning and budgeting to provide quarterly reports to the joint budget committee about the expenditures from the disaster emergency fund (fund) and to post the reports on the office's website. The state auditor is required to conduct or cause to be conducted a performance audit of the fund that is completed on December 1, 2022. Thereafter, the state auditor is required to conduct a biennial financial audit of the fund for the 2 most recently completed fiscal years.
Sections 3 and 11 require the office of state planning and budgeting to prepare quarterly reports of federal funds that the state receives and spends. Section 3 relates to money the state receives related to a disaster emergency and section 11 relates to all other federal funds.
Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10 extend the repeal date for the authority to transfer spending authority between line items in specified circumstances from September 1, 2020, to September 1, 2025. Section 9 similarly extends the repeal date for the provision permitting overexpenditures in excess of the amount authorized by an item of appropriation in limited circumstances, including for medicaid programs.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

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Statutes affected:
Introduced (06/11/2020): 24-75-105, 24-75-106, 24-75-106.5, 24-75-107, 24-75-108, 24-75-109, 24-75-110