Appropriation bills to include performance targets; performance measurement data to be maintained and reported.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-103-153
in effectBeginning with the 1996 fiscal year, the appropriation bills enacted to provide funding for each state agency or institution shall include performance targets for each performance measure established for each program within each such agency. Said performance targets shall be established annually by the Legislature and shall be based upon the funding level authorized for each agency within its appropriation bill. The Department of Finance and Administration shall provide accounting system services to each agency to allow both program expenditures and performance measurement data to be maintained and reported in such form and in such detail as may be required by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. As provided in Section 27-103-159, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and the Department of Transportation may be exempted from the requirements of this section.
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