BILL ANALYSIS
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 1585 (Accountability and Administrative Review Committee)
As Amended February 8, 2010
2/3 vote. Urgency
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|ASSEMBLY: |77-0 |(September 2, |SENATE: |35-0 |(February 11, |
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Original Committee Reference: B. & P.
SUMMARY : Revises the procedure for mandatory and voluntary
reporting requirements and deletes obsolete reports.
The Senate amendments :
1)Clarify that reports required or requested by law be submitted
as a printed copy to the Legislative Counsel Bureau (LCB) and
the Secretary of the Senate, and as an electronic copy to the
Chief Clerk of the Assembly.
2)Clarify that bills introduced or amended in either house of
the Legislature requiring a state agency to submit a report to
the Legislature or LCB, as specified, to include a provision
repealing or making inoperative the reporting requirement four
years after the due date of any report required every four or
more years.
3)Clarify that the term "obsolete report" means a report that
has not been completed and filed and for which the date that
the report was required to be completed and filed was four or
more years after the initial report is submitted.
4)Delete 282 obsolete reports and exclude 19 reports from being
deleted.
5)Make technical and clarifying changes.
EXISTING LAW requires:
1)Or requests various state and local agencies to submit reports
on specified topics to the Legislature, the Governor, or both.
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2)That reports to be made to the Members of either house of the
Legislature to instead be submitted to LCB, the Secretary of
the Senate, and Chief Clerk of the Assembly, and a hard copy
to each member of the Legislature.
3)LCB to prepare and publish a list of all the reports that
state and local agencies are required to submit, and upon
request, to provide aid and assistance to any Member of the
Legislature with respect to a bill, resolution, or measure,
including drafting a bill into its proper form.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill is substantially similar to
the version approved by the Senate.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee, pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, negligible state costs.
COMMENTS : According to the Assembly Accountability and
Administrative Review Committee, a conservative estimate of the
savings realized through this legislation is $5-8 million.
Analysis Prepared by : Rebecca May / B. & P. / (916) 319-3301
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