2014 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 4 - PUBLIC FISCAL ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 07A - Zero Based Budgets
§ 4-7A-1 Definition of terms.

4-7A-1. Definition of terms. Terms as used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, mean:

(1) "Agency," a department, division, or office as defined in chapter 1-32;

(2) "Current year," the fiscal year prior to the year for which the budget is being prepared;

(3) "Decision package," a documented program funding level identified and described in a manner that can be evaluated and ranked against other funding levels and functions on a priority basis. It identifies a discrete function at one funding level for evaluation and comparison by purpose, goals, objectives, consequences of not performing the function, measures of performance, alternative courses of action, costs and benefits;

(4) "Expansion levels," each of which shall contain only one specific phase of expansion. The first of these will probably be the funding level necessary to provide current service levels;

(5) "Joint committee on appropriations," a joint committee formed by the members who serve on the Senate and House of Representatives standing committees on appropriations;

(6) "Program," major services rendered by a department for a single identifiable purpose as appropriated within a department budget or any part of a major service as determined by the joint committee on appropriations;

(7) "The minimum level," the lowest level of operation by which a program can maintain the ability to pursue its phase of the division goal. This level shall be less than ninety-one percent of the current year's funding level unless otherwise specified by the joint committee on appropriations;

(8) "Zero based budget," a process of identifying agency operations by analyzing programs by decision packages and allowing for the evaluation of these programs by a ranking process.
Source: SL 1978, ch 37, § 1.