Proposal to publish reports on how the budget is spent

Automatic summary, not yet reviewed

1. The bill, introduced by the Ciudadanos parliamentary group, would amend the General Budget Law to improve transparency and oversight of budget execution. It is not an approved law.
2. The bill would require that, along with the State Budget bill, two execution reports be sent to the Cortes Generales: one for the last completed year and one for the first half of the current year. This would show whether previous budget items were underfunded or oversized.
3. It would also add a new Article 160 bis: the State Comptroller General would periodically publish information on budget execution, at least every six months and at the level of each budget item. The Government would send these reports to the Cortes Generales for review and debate.
4. The law would take effect the day after its publication in the Official State Gazette.

Who it affects

• The Cortes Generales (Spanish Parliament): Would receive budget execution reports to debate when approving budgets.
• The Government: Would have to send the execution reports to the Cortes Generales.
• The State Comptroller General (IGAE): Would have to regularly publish information on budget execution.
• The public: Would be able to better understand how public money is spent.

Words worth knowing

Ejecución presupuestaria (budget execution)

How the money planned in the budget is actually spent and collected.

Partida presupuestaria (budget item)

Each of the lines into which the budget is divided to assign money to a specific purpose.

IGAE

Intervención General de la Administración del Estado, the body that audits public accounts internally.

Ley General Presupuestaria (General Budget Law)

The law that sets the rules for how State budgets are prepared and managed.

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