Arizona Laws 41-714. Automation projects fund; subaccounts; exemption; annual report; purpose; joint legislative budget committee review
A. The automation projects fund is established consisting of monies appropriated by the legislature. The department of administration shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are subject to legislative appropriation. The director shall establish a separate subaccount for each agency that implements, upgrades or maintains automation and information technology projects. Monies in each subaccount are subject to legislative appropriation. Monies may not be transferred between agency subaccounts and are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190 relating to lapsing of appropriations, except that on completion of an automation and information technology project, all monies remaining unexpended and unencumbered in the subaccount revert to their fund of origin. On or before September 1 of each year, the department shall submit a report to the joint legislative budget committee on each reversion made pursuant to this subsection in the prior fiscal year.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 41-714
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Department: means the department of administration. See Arizona Laws 41-701.01
- Director: means the director of the department of administration. See Arizona Laws 41-701.01
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- State agency: means a department, board, office, authority, commission or other governmental budget unit of this state and includes an agency assigned to a department for administrative purposes. See Arizona Laws 41-741
B. Monies in the fund shall be used to implement, upgrade or maintain automation and information technology projects for any state agency.
C. Before the expenditure of any monies from the fund, the joint legislative budget committee shall review the expenditure plan presented by the department for the fiscal year in which the monies are to be spent. The expenditure plan shall include the project cost, deliverables, timeline for completion and method of procurement.