BILL ANALYSIS �
Bill No: AB
1420
SENATE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION
Senator Roderick D. Wright, Chair
2013-2014 Regular Session
Staff Analysis
AB 1420 Author: Accountability and Administrative Review
Committee
As Amended: June 6, 2013
Hearing Date: June 25, 2013
Consultant: Art Terzakis
SUBJECT
State Agencies: reports
DESCRIPTION
AB 1420 eliminates and modifies certain state agencies'
reporting requirements to the Legislature, Governor and
other state agencies in order to address conflicts with
certain provisions of SB 71 (Leno), Chapter 728, Statutes
of 2012, which eliminated a number of obsolete reporting
requirements for state agencies and departments.
EXISTING LAW
Existing law requires or requests various state and local
entities 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.
BACKGROUND
Purpose of AB 1420: The author's office notes that SB 71
(Leno), Chapter 728 of 2012, eliminated over 200 reporting
requirements that were vetted through public hearings and
other stakeholder input and deemed appropriate to
eliminate. Additionally, SB 71 stipulated that any bill
that took effect on or before January 1, 2013, that
affected any provision of SB 71, prevailed over SB 71. As
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a result, SB 71 had many provisions that were chaptered out
by other bills. This measure is simply intended to
re-repeal and/or amend the chaptered-out provisions of SB
71 of last year.
PRIOR/RELATED LEGISLATION
AB 1365 (John A. Perez) 2013-14 Session. Would make
various changes to the law related to reports filed by
state and local agencies with Legislative Counsel. Also,
would makes additional changes to the Internet Web site for
those reports maintained by Legislative Counsel. (Pending
in this Committee)
SB 71 (Leno), Chapter 728, Statutes of 2012. Among other
things, eliminated the requirement that certain state
agencies submit certain reports to the Legislature and
other state agencies relating to a variety of subjects.
Also, modified various requirements of certain reports by,
among other ways, requiring specified reports be placed on
the Internet Web site of the reporting agency rather than
submitted to the Legislature or other state agencies,
requiring certain agencies to collaborate with other
agencies in preparing specified reports, consolidating
certain reports, deleting the requirement that specified
state agencies make specified information available on
their Internet Web sites, and transferring reporting duties
from one agency to another.
AB 1585 (Huber), Chapter 7, Statutes of 2010. An urgency
measure that deleted hundreds of obsolete reports, as
specified, and revised the procedure for mandatory
reporting requirements by state agencies.
AB 1311 (Duvall), Chapter 284, Statutes of 2009. Repealed
and revised various reporting requirements for the
Department of General Services, State Architect, and Fair
Employment and Housing Commission.
SB 1443 (Oller) 2001-02 Session. Would have required state
or local agency reports or studies to be submitted
electronically to the Legislature or Legislative Counsel
and provided that no state or local agency would be
required to prepare and submit any written report to the
Legislature or the Governor until July 1, 2003. (Held in
Senate Committee on Governmental Organization)
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SB 392 (Oller) 2001-02 Session. Would have amended and
deleted several unnecessary and burdensome reporting
requirements that the Secretary of State and many other
agencies must make to the Governor and Legislature each
year. (Returned without signature because it would have
repealed the annual report to the Governor on the progress
of maintenance of State records.)
SB 1191 (Speier), Chapter 745, Statutes of 2001 . Deleted
approximately 400 provisions requiring state and local
agencies to prepare and submit reports deemed to be no
longer relevant or necessary.
AB 116 (Speier), Chapter 970, Statutes of 1996 . Continued
the suspended reporting requirements enacted by AB 2824
(Speier) of 1992.
AB 2824 (Speier), Chapter 710, Statutes of 1992 . Suspended
reporting requirements for three years of some 1,200
reports.
SUPPORT: None on file as of June 21, 2013.
OPPOSE: None on file as of June 21, 2013.
FISCAL COMMITTEE: Senate Appropriations Committee
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