2019 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 6 - Public Finances
Article 3A - Accountability in Government
Section 6-3A-8 - Performance-based program budgets.
A. For each agency, the governor's proposed budget submitted pursuant to Section 6-3-21 NMSA 1978 and the committee's budget recommendation pursuant to Section 2-5-4 NMSA 1978 shall contain:
(1) a budget recommendation for each approved program;
(2) a summary, including the outputs and outcomes, of each approved program;
(3) performance measures and performance targets for each approved program;
(4) an evaluation of the performance of each approved program;
(5) the amount of the budget recommendation that is intended for evidence-based, research-based and promising sub-programs; and
(6) any other criteria deemed relevant by the governor or the committee.
B. For each agency, the governor's proposed budget submitted pursuant to Section 6-3-21 NMSA 1978 and the committee's budget recommendation pursuant to Section 2-5-4 NMSA 1978 may contain recommendations regarding incentives or disincentives for agency performance and implementation of evidence-based, research-based or promising sub-programs. Incentives or disincentives may apply to all or part of an agency and may apply to any or all of an agency's approved programs.
C. Pursuant to Section 6-3-7 NMSA 1978, the division shall prescribe forms and approve operating budgets for agencies funded by performance-based program budgets; however, the division shall not take any action that hinders an agency from operating under a performance-based appropriation or that is otherwise inconsistent with the purposes of the Accountability in Government Act. Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 6-3-23 through 6-3-25 NMSA 1978, and absent specific authorization in the general appropriation act or other act of the legislature, no funds may be transferred either into or out of a performance-based program budget.
D. Each agency shall develop, in consultation with the division, a plan for monitoring and reviewing the agency's programs to ensure that performance data are maintained and supported by agency records.
History: Laws 1999, ch. 5, § 8; 1999, ch. 15, § 8; 2004, ch. 39, § 8; 2019, ch. 23, § 4.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2019 amendment, effective June 14, 2019, provided that for each agency, the governor's proposed budget shall identify the amount of funding that is intended for evidence-based, research-based and promising sub-programs; added new Paragraph A(5) and redesignated former Paragraph A(5) as Paragraph A(6); and in Subsection B, after "agency performance", added "and implementation of evidence-based, research-based or promising sub-programs".
The 2004 amendment, effective May 19, 2004, amended Subsection A to delete "required to submit a performance-based program budget request" and to change in Paragraph (3) "standards" to "targets", amended Subsection B to delete "required to submit a performance-based program budget request" and amended Subsection D to delete before "agency" "No later than July 1 of the year in which a state agency begins operating under a performance-based program budget, the" and to insert in its place "Each".
