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APPROVAL OF LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL - DUTIES AND
POWERS OF THE AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS

RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia approves and endorses the proposed legislation to clarify that private gifts are excluded from the transaction data to be reported to the Auditor of Public Accounts of the Commonwealth for inclusion in a statewide database.

The proposed legislation, which follows, would amend § 30-133, subsection H:

H. 1. The Auditor of Public Accounts shall compile and maintain on its Internet website a searchable database providing certain state expenditure, revenue, and demographic information as described in this subsection. In maintaining the database, the Auditor of Public Accounts shall work with and coordinate his efforts with the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission in obtaining, summarizing, and compiling the information to avoid duplication of efforts. The database shall be updated each year by October 15, to provide the information required in this subsection for the 10 most recently ended fiscal years of the Commonwealth.

The online database shall be made available to citizens of the Commonwealth to allow public access to historical revenue collections and appropriations with related demographic information, to the extent that the information is available and provided to the Auditor of

Public Accounts. All state departments, courts officers, boards, commissions, institutions, or other agencies of the Commonwealth shall furnish all information requested by the Auditor of Public Accounts and shall cooperate with him to the fullest extent.

For purposes of reporting pursuant to this subsection and implementing the above database, the Auditor of Public Accounts shall include all appropriated funds and other sources under the control of state-supported institutions of higher education, except for the activity of private gifts, including endowment funds and unrestricted gifts referenced in §23-9.2 of the Code of Virginia notwithstanding anything as may be to the contrary herein. The exclusion of this activity does not affect the public access to these records unless otherwise specifically exempted by law.

2. The database shall contain the following for each of the 10 most recently ended fiscal years of the Commonwealth:

• a. Major categories of spending by each secretariat and for major agencies;


• b. The number of full-time state employees;


• c. Total fiscal year revenues from state taxes, fees, and other charges, and total fiscal year revenues from state taxes, fees, and other charges computed on a per capita basis and as a percentage of personal income in the Commonwealth;


• d. With regard to state taxes, fees, and other charges computed on a per capita basis and as a percentage of personal income, a comparison of such statistics for Virginia with the same statistics for other states;


• e. Total fiscal year revenues from federal sources, including the major categories of spending for such revenues;


• f. Total population and total population by various age groups including, but not limited to, school-age population and the population of persons 65 years of age and older;

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• g. Student enrollment in grades K through 12;


• h. Enrollment in public institutions of higher education of the Commonwealth;


• i. Enrollment in private institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth;


• j. The annual prison population;


• k. Virginia adjusted gross income and Virginia taxable income by various age groups;


• l. The number of citizens in the Commonwealth receiving food stamps;


• m. The number of driver's licenses issued;


• n. The number of registered motor vehicles;


• o. The number of full-time private sector employees;


• p. The number of households;


• q. The number of prepaid tuition contracts outstanding pursuant to Chapter 4.9 (§23-38.75 et seq.) of Title 23 and the estimated total liability under such contracts; and


• r. Other data as the Auditor deems appropriate relating to the Commonwealth of Virginia.

3. By October 15th of each year, the Auditor shall also produce a paper copy or a computer file containing the information described in this subsection and shall distribute the copy or file to newspapers of general circulation in the Commonwealth. The distribution shall include the address of the Internet website for the searchable database.