§ 38–2831. Budget submission requirements. [Repealed]

Repealed.

(Dec. 7, 2004, D.C. Law 15-211, § 6, 51 DCR 8805; Mar. 21, 2009, D.C. Law 17-325, § 4, 56 DCR 499; Sept. 24, 2010, D.C. Law 18-223, § 4032, 57 DCR 6242; Feb. 22, 2014, D.C. Law 20-87, § 3, 61 DCR 309; Dec. 3, 2020, D.C. Law 23-149, § 4054(a), 67 DCR 10493; Nov. 13, 2021, D.C. Law 24-45, § 4003, 68 DCR 010163; Mar. 2, 2022, D.C. Law 24-86, § 2, 69 DCR 000444; Mar. 10, 2023, D.C. Law 24-300, § 202(a), 70 DCR 1021.)

Effect of Amendments

D.C. Law 17-325 rewrote the section, which had read as follows: “The Board of Education shall approve an annual budget for submission to the Council that is consistent with the goals and objectives established by the Board of Education for the operation of the public schools of the District of Columbia. The Board shall prepare and execute a performance-based budget on an annual basis. The budget prepared by the Board shall have its operations organized by major programs, which in turn will be composed of activities and services. The budget submitted by the board shall allocate all monies by activities and object class. The DCPS submission shall also include a presentation that specifies the monies budgeted for each school. This presentation shall specify the funds available to each school for which the decision to spend is made by the school’s local schools restructuring team, and shall specify other responsibility center funds the spending of which directly benefit local schools (e.g., for textbooks, substitute teachers, transportation, maintenance/engineers, nurses, teachers salaries, etc.), so that the Council and the public may know the totality of funds, goods and services that will be provided to the local schools directly.”

D.C. Law 18-223 rewrote the section, which had read as follows: “The Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools (‘Chancellor’) shall prepare and execute a performance-based budget on an annual basis. The budget prepared by the Chancellor shall have its operations organized by major programs, which in turn will be composed of activities and services. The budget submitted by the Chancellor shall allocate all monies by revenue source for programs, activity, and service levels, and by revenue source for comptroller source group by program and activity. The District of Columbia Public Schools submission shall include the number of full-time equivalents with job titles by program and revenue source. The DCPS submission shall also include a presentation that specifies the monies budgeted for each school. This presentation shall specify the funds available to each school for which the decision to spend is made by the school’s local schools restructuring team, and shall specify other responsibility center funds the spending of which directly benefit local schools (e.g., for textbooks, substitute teachers, transportation, maintenance/engineers, nurses, teachers salaries, etc.), so that the Council and the public may know the totality of funds, goods and services that will be provided to the local schools directly.”

The 2014 amendment by D.C. Law 20-87 rewrote (b).

Emergency Legislation

For temporary (90 days) repeal of this section, see § 202(a) of Schools First in Budgeting Emergency Amendment Act of 2022 (D.C. Act 24-722, Jan. 10, 2023, 70 DCR 516).

For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 4 of Public Schools Hearing Emergency Amendment Act of 2009 (D.C. Act 18-11, February 25, 2009, 56 DCR 1915).

For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 4032 of Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2010 (D.C. Act 18-463, July 2, 2010, 57 DCR 6542).

Short Title

Short title: Section 4031 of D.C. Law 18-223 provided that subtitle D of title IV of the act may be cited as the “District of Columbia Public Schools Fiscal Transparency Amendment Act of 2010”.