BILL ANALYSIS Ó
AB 1420
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Date of Hearing: May 1, 2013
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTABILITY AND ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW
Jim Frazier, Chair
AB 1420 (Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review)
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As Introduced: March 21, 2013
SUBJECT : State government: state agencies: reports.
SUMMARY : Makes various minor and technical changes to address
chaptering conflicts with provisions from SB 71 (Leno), Chapter
728, Statutes of 2012, which eliminated a number of obsolete
reporting requirements for state agencies and departments.
FISCAL EFFECT : Minor savings for state government due to fewer
reporting requirements.
EXISTING LAW : Requires or requests various state and local
agencies to submit reports on specified topics to the
Legislature, the Governor, or both; and directs Legislative
Counsel to prepare and publish a list of all the reports that
state and local agencies are required to submit.
COMMENTS : SB 71 eliminated over 200 reporting requirements
that were vetted through public hearings and other stakeholder
input and deemed appropriate to eliminate. It also specified
that any bill that took effect on or before January 1, 2013,
that affected any provision of SB 71 prevailed over SB 71. As a
result, SB 71 had many provisions that were chaptered out by
other bills. This bill is a clean-up measure to simply
re-repeal those chaptered out provisions.
PRIOR LEGISLATION : AB 1585 (Committee on Accountability and
Administrative Review), Chapter 7, Statutes of 2010, deletes
numerous obsolete reporting requirements from the list of over
2,800 reports maintained by Legislative Counsel; revises the
method for receiving and cataloging mandated reports; and,
requires any new report requirement to include a sunset date, as
specified.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
AB 1420
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None on file.
Opposition
None on file.
Analysis Prepared by : Cassie Royce / A. & A.R. / (916)
319-3600