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SECTIONS 13070-13083

GOVERNMENT CODE
SECTION 13070-13083
13070. The department has general powers of supervision over all matters concerning the financial and business policies of the State and whenever it deems it necessary, or at the instance of the Governor, shall institute or cause the institution of such investigations and proceedings as it deems proper to conserve the rights and interests of the State. 13071. The Director of Finance, in coordinating the internal auditors of state agencies, shall ensure that these auditors utilize the "Standards for the Professional Practices of Internal Auditing." 13073. Within the Department of Finance, there is the Population Research Unit. The purposes of the unit include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) Providing adequate demographic data to aid effective state and local planning and policymaking. (b) Serving all levels of government and the private sector as the centralized state source of demographic data. (c) Assuring equitable classification of cities and counties according to population to provide equitable distribution of funds and tax rate limits. (d) Rendering advisory, investigational, or other similar service of relevance to the establishment of population and its composition to any city, county, district, association of cities, counties, districts or any other political subdivision or the federal government upon such terms and conditions as may be satisfactory to the director, provided that the state shall be reimbursed for all costs incurred in performing services authorized by this subdivision. 13073.1. Whenever the department issues reports containing population breakdowns or analyses based on race or ethnicity, it shall report Asian-Pacific Islanders as a distinct category, and not combine Asian-Pacific Islanders into any other category. 13073.5. The Legislature finds and declares that: (1) population size and distribution patterns in California exert a major influence on the physical, social, and economic structure of the state and on the quality of the environment generally; (2) sound and current data and methods to estimate population trends are necessary to enable state, regional, and local agencies to plan and function properly; and (3) there is a critical need for a proper study of the implications of present and future population trends in order that state, regional, and local agencies might develop or reexamine policies and actions based thereon. The Population Research Unit shall: (a) Develop basic demographic data and statistical compilations, which may include current population survey and a mid-decade census. (b) Design and test methods of research and data collection. (c) Conduct local population estimates as required by law. (d) Validate all official census data and population statistics. (e) Analyze and prepare projections of enrollments in public schools, colleges, and universities. (f) Analyze governmental records to establish characteristics of migration and distribution. (g) Publish annual estimates of the population of the state and its composition. (h) Prepare short- and long-range projections of population and its composition. (i) Provide advisory services to state agencies and other levels of government. (j) Evaluate and recommend data requirements for determining population and population growth. (k) Analyze the demographic features of the causes and consequences of patterns of natural increase or decrease, migration, and population concentration within the state. (l) Assess the need for population data required for determining the allocation of federal, state, and other subvention revenues. (m) Request and obtain from any department, division, commission, or other agency of the state such assistance and information as will enable the unit to effectively carry out the provisions of this section. (n) Cooperate with the Office of Planning and Research with respect to functions involving mutual areas of concern relating to demography and state planning. (o) Enter into agreements to carry out the purposes of this section, including the application for and acceptance of federal funds or private foundation grants for demographic studies. (p) Act as primary state government liaison with the Census Bureau, United States Department of Commerce, in the acquisition and distribution of census data and related documentation to state agencies. (q) Administer, with other agencies, a State Census Data Center which will be responsible for acquiring decennial and other census data from the Bureau of the Census, and for providing necessary information to the Legislature and to the executive branch and for seeking to ensure the availability of census information to local governments. The unit and the Office of Planning and Research shall be responsible for designating subcenters of the State Census Data Center as needed. The unit will provide materials to subcenters of the State Census Data Center, will coordinate the efforts of the subcenters to avoid duplication and may consult in the design of standard reports to be offered by the center and its subcenters. (r) Coordinate with the Office of Planning and Research Environmental Data Center for the purposes of ensuring consistency and compatibility of data products, improving public access to data, ensuring the consistent interpretation of data, and avoiding duplication of functions. 13074. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any revision, subsequent to the first revision, of the annual provisional county population estimates, made by the Department of Finance, shall not be the basis for a change in the amount of state funds received by local agencies or funds owed or paid by local agencies to the state. 13075. (a) When authorized or required by the Legislature in the Budget Act, the Department of Finance may exercise control over the adoption of regulations as provided in this section. The Legislature shall not authorize or require the Department of Finance in the Budget Act to review and approve regulations adopted by state agencies except: (1) Regulations adopted by the Department of Social Services which add to the cost of any public assistance programs as these are defined in Section 10061 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. (2) Regulations adopted by a state agency which would have the effect of increasing expenditures from the Health Care Deposit Fund under the Medical Assistance Program. The Department of Finance shall limit its review of a regulation under this section to making a determination as to whether sufficient funds are available to fund the added program expenditures which would be incurred if the regulation were adopted. In making the determination concerning the sufficiency of funds to meet the costs of the regulation, the Director of Finance shall consider the amount of the costs which would be added to the program or the increased expenditures from the Health Care Deposit Fund for the fiscal year during which the costs or expenditures would be incurred, the effect such a change would have on the expenditure limitations established in the Budget Act for that year, and the extent to which the regulation constitutes a deviation from the program requirements, the assumptions, and the estimates which were the basis for establishing the expenditure limitations in the Budget Act. (b) The Department of Finance shall issue written instructions to the state agencies which adopt regulations subject to the provisions of this section. The instructions shall include the data requirements, methods of estimating costs or expenditures, and the narrative explanation which the department requires in order to review regulations which it is authorized or required to review. The instructions shall also include an explanation of the department's review procedures and the methods the department uses in making decisions concerning the sufficiency of funds to pay for added program costs or increased expenditures. (c) The Department of Finance shall complete the review of any regulation subject to the provisions of this section within 15 working days following its receipt. If the department fails to act within that period of time, the regulation shall be deemed approved by the department. 13076. The director shall visit or cause to be visited from time to time every public institution maintained in whole or in part by State appropriations, to ascertain their condition, and their wants and requirements. 13077. Whenever a nonprofit corporation or foundation enters into a contract with a state educational institution, maintained in whole or in part by state appropriation, under the terms of which services are to be performed for the state educational institution, the books and records of such nonprofit corporation or foundation, insofar as they relate to revenues and expenditures applicable to the contract, may be audited by the Department of Finance. 13078. The director may exempt from his approval or from approval of the department any transactions involving not more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for which such approval is required by statute whenever, in his judgment, such exemption is appropriate and in the best interests of the state. Written notice of exemptions shall be given to the Controller. 13079. With the consent of the Legislature, the director may make application for and accept loans of funds made available by the federal government or a federal department or agency to aid in financing the costs of engineering and architectural surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, or other action preliminary to and in preparation for the construction of public works authorized by the Legislature. Repayment of such loans shall be pursuant to appropriation by the Legislature. 13080. Such amount as may be necessary to pay monthly the amount required for liquidation of the investment, with interest at the rate agreed upon between the parties, in any agreements entered into between the State Department of the California Highway Patrol and the Governor and any other state agency, pursuant to the provisions of Section 14681 of the Government Code, is hereby appropriated each fiscal year from the State Treasury. Of the amount so appropriated, so much thereof as is necessary to liquidate the investment in the building for the State Department of the California Highway Patrol is payable from the Motor Vehicle Fund, and the balance necessary for such liquidation is payable from the General Fund. The money herein appropriated shall be allotted to the State Department of the California Highway Patrol and the Governor by the Director of Finance for support in such amounts as he may determine to be necessary, and shall become available only if the Department of Finance certifies to the State Controller that the amount required monthly to liquidate the investment, with interest at the rate agreed upon, has not been included in the Budget Act for such fiscal year for support of the State Department of the California Highway Patrol for such portion of the building which has been provided for its use, or has not been included in the Budget Act for any fiscal year for such portion of the building which has been provided for the use of the Office of Civil Defense. 13081. Such amount as may be necessary to pay monthly the amount required for liquidation of the investment, with interest at the rate agreed upon between the parties, in any agreements entered into between the State Department of Motor Vehicles or the State Department of California Highway Patrol, and any other state agency, pursuant to the provisions of Sections 14679 and 14682 of the Government Code, is hereby appropriated each fiscal year from the Motor Vehicle Fund in the State Treasury. The money herein appropriated shall be allotted to the State Department of California Highway Patrol or to the State Department of Motor Vehicles by the Director of Finance for support in such amounts as he may determine to be necessary, and shall become available only if the Department of Finance certifies to the State Controller that the amount required monthly to liquidate the investment, with interest at the rate agreed upon, has not been included in the Budget Act for such fiscal year for support of said departments. 13082. Subject to the approval of the Capitol Building and Planning Commission, the department shall acquire and do all acts necessary to erect and maintain a monument to Father Jun

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