Fiscal Highlights - May 2016
Office of Administrative Rules -
Brian Wikle ( PDF)The 2016 Legislature passed and the Governor signed H.B. 103, "Department of Administrative Services Amendments," that redesignated the Division of Administrative Rules as the Office of Administrative Rules (OAR). The Legislature appropriated a base budget of $420,900 to OAR for FY 2017 along with $66,700 of beginning nonlapsing balances (S.B. 6, "Infrastructure and Government Base Budget," Item 16). In its budget, the office anticipated expending its base appropriation and $20,400 of nonlapsing balances during FY 2017. The Governor's SUCCESS Initiative identified the need for Administrative Rules to have more resources available for core functions such as reviewing rule filings, publishing rules, and training agencies. Therefore, the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) advocated for the division to change to an office with the primary objective of reallocating resources that had been devoted to administrative functions to the production line. Provisions in H.B. 103 were designed to affect the desired outcome within the existing budget as follows:
The Legislature also increased the office's FY 2016 budget by transferring $110,000 of beginning nonlapsing balances from the Division of Finance to OAR (S.B. 3, "Current Fiscal Year Supplemental Appropriations," Items 44 and 48). DAS plans to use this additional funding to replace its eRules System. |
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