A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for a state government performance audit.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Legislative Services Commission shall contract for a performance audit of the executive branch of State government and a performance audit of the staff of the legislative branch of State government.  The Legislative Services Commission shall report the results of these audits to the 2008 Regular Session of the 2007 General Assembly on or before February 1, 2008.
The performance audit in the executive branch shall include an examination of the efficiency and effectiveness of major management policies, practices, and functions across all executive branch agencies, including the following areas:
(1)	Planning, budgeting, and program evaluation policies and practices.
(2)	Personnel systems operations and management.
(3)	State purchasing operations and management.
(4)	Information processing and telecommunications systems policy, organization, and management.
(5)	Organizational and staffing patterns, especially in terms of the ratio of managers and supervisors to nonmanagement personnel.
Performance audits in executive branch agencies may examine entire departments, agencies, or institutions, or similar programs in several departments.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the General Assembly the sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to contract for the performance audits required by this act.  These funds shall not revert at the end of the 2006‑2007 fiscal year but shall remain available for expenditure in the 2007‑2008 fiscal year for the performance audits required by this act.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.