3-15-105 - Review of and comment upon proposed expenditures.
3-15-105. Review of and comment upon proposed expenditures.
(a) It is the intent of this part that plans be made carefully and be reviewed thoroughly to help ensure that new programs will achieve their intended purposes, to help ensure that new facilities are needed and are designed properly, and to help ensure that the general assembly and the public can have confidence that the state will deliver a correctional system which is effective and efficient.
(b) To these ends, the committee shall review proposed expenditures for corrections and shall make its comments on proposed expenditures in a timely fashion according to the following:
(1) Any proposed expenditure of funds to implement new programs or expand existing programs, any administrative or management changes requiring additional expenditures, any proposed expenditure for expanding or otherwise changing the operation of any facility or for beginning the operation of any new facility shall be filed in writing by the commissioner of correction with the committee and may be reviewed by the committee. After any such review, the committee may comment to the commissioner of finance and administration on the proposed expenditures; provided, that any such comment shall be made within thirty (30) days after receipt by the committee of the proposal for such expenditures. If such expenditures are made before the committee has made its comments, if any, or if expenditures are made which are inconsistent with the comments of the committee, the commissioner of finance and administration shall explain in writing the reasons for making such expenditures to the committee and each other member of the general assembly.
(2) Any proposed plans for capital expenditure for maintenance or renovations of existing facilities, construction of new facilities, or purchase of equipment to be used in such facilities shall be filed in writing by the commissioner of correction with the committee at the same time it is filed with the state building commission. The committee has the authority to review such plans and, after such review, the committee may comment to the state building commission on the proposed capital expenditure, and the commission is encouraged to consider the committee's comments, if any, in making its decisions.
[Acts 1985 (1st E.S.), ch. 5, § 34.]