BILL ANALYSIS Ó
AB 1431
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Date of Hearing: January 19, 2012
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Felipe Fuentes, Chair
AB 1431 (Committee on Accountability) - As Amended: January 4,
2012
Policy Committee: Accountability and
Administrative Review Vote: 10-0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable:
SUMMARY
AB 1431 deletes specified, obsolete mandated reports from
statute and from the Legislative Counsel list of mandated
reports, including 18 reports from statute and 137 reports from
the Legislative Counsel list.
FISCAL EFFECT
Negligible.
COMMENTS :
1)Purpose . AB 1431 deletes specified reports from statute and
reports identified as obsolete from the list maintained by
Legislative Counsel. The reports listed in AB 1431 were
identified by the Office of Planning and Research, the
Department of Finance and the State and Consumer Services
Agency as obsolete, meaning that they are no longer necessary
and have not been completed for three or more years.
2)Background . Government Code section 10242.5 requires
Legislative Counsel to maintain and update an electronic list
of all reports that state and local agencies are required to
prepare and file with the governor or legislature, removing
obsolete or duplicate reports from the list. This section
also defines obsolete report to mean a report that has not
been completed and filed when the date the report was required
to be completed and filed was at least four years after the
initial report was to be submitted.
AB 1431
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3)Relevant legislation . This bill is similar to AB 1585
(Committee on Accountability & Administrative Review), Chapter
7, Statutes of 2010, which revised the method for state and
local agencies to submit reports to the Legislature.
4)Executive order . On December 12, 2011, Governor Brown issued
Executive Order B-14-11, requiring agency secretaries and
department directors to list reports they are required to
submit to the Legislature and identify reports that may no
longer be of significant value. The Department of Finance has
subsequently issued guidance on identifying obsolete reports.
5)Proposed amendments. The author has been continuing to work
with interested parties and will present amendments that
refine the list of reports to be deleted.
Analysis Prepared by : Roger Dunstan / APPR. / (916) 319-2081