9-4-5613 - Identification and submission of list of programs for the judiciary to operate under a performance-based program budget. - Tennessee Statutes

9-4-5613. Identification and submission of list of programs for the judiciary to operate under a performance-based program budget.

Not later than June 30, 2003, the judicial department, acting through the administrative office of the courts, shall identify and submit to the general assembly a list of programs that the administrative office of the courts recommends could operate under a performance-based program budget under the criteria established in § 9-4-5103(b). By January 1, 2004, the administrative office of the courts shall submit to the general assembly performance measures and standards for such programs. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act, the general assembly, in consultation with the judicial branch, may develop statutory procedures for evaluating the effectiveness of such programs.

[Acts 2002, ch. 875, § 1.]