BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: April 17, 2012
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND CONSUMER
PROTECTION
Mary Hayashi, Chair
AB 1914 (Garrick) - As Amended: April 9, 2012
SUBJECT : Agency reports.
SUMMARY : Requires state and local agencies required to submit
reports to the Legislature to submit a list of their outstanding
reports, and other specified information, to the Legislature by
April 1 each year. Specifically, this bill :
1)Requires each state or local agency required to submit one or
more reports to submit to the Legislature, in a printed form
to the Secretary of the Senate and in an electronic form to
the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, a list of all reports the
agency has not yet submitted, by April 1 of each year, which
includes:
a) A status summary for each report and a statement
explaining why any overdue report has not yet been
submitted; and,
b) A compliance plan for the submission of each report,
including a timeline for submitting the report that
specifies identifiable goals, objectives, and benchmarks to
be met prior to completion and submission of each report.
2)Requires the Chief Clerk of the Assembly and the Secretary of
the Senate to forward these lists to the Assembly Committee on
Budget and the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review,
respectively, upon receipt.
3)Authorizes the Assembly Committee on Budget or the Senate
Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review to require an agency
that has failed to submit timely reports to appear before the
committee and explain the failure to submit those reports as
required.
4)Authorizes the Legislature to consider, in connection with the
state budget, information obtained pursuant to this bill and
withhold appropriations to an agency that fails to submit
timely reports.
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5)Defines "report" to mean a report required by law to be
submitted by a state or local agency to the Members of either
house of the Legislature pursuant to a provision of law that
is effective on or after January 1, 2013.
6)Makes legislative findings and declarations.
EXISTING LAW specifies how reports required or requested by law
to be submitted by a state or local agency to the Legislature
are to be submitted.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS :
Purpose of this bill . According to the author, "Currently,
there is no system in place to monitor the completion of reports
that state agencies are required to provide to the Legislature
nor are they held accountable for delinquent or failure to
report. This bill will require an update to be submitted by
April 1st of every year to the Legislature. This will provide
the necessary information for the budget committee to
potentially withhold allocations from those agencies which are
delinquent in delivering their required reports. It ultimately
gives the Legislature the information and potential leverage it
needs to hold the agencies accountable."
Background . Reporting requirements under current law are
required to 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.
Additionally, 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, must include a provision
repealing or making inoperative the reporting requirement four
years after the due date, as specified.
This bill requires state and local agencies required to submit
reports to the Legislature to submit a list of their outstanding
reports, and other specified information, to the Legislature by
April 1 of each year. This bill also authorizes the Legislature
to consider this information when determining the budgetary
appropriations to the agency in question.
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Previous legislation . AB 1431 (Accountability and
Administrative Review) of 2012, deletes specified, obsolete
mandated reports from statute and from the LCB list of mandated
reports. This bill is pending the Senate Rules Committee.
AB 1585 (Accountability and Administrative Review), Chapter 7,
Statutes of 2010, deleted hundreds of obsolete reports and
revised the procedure for mandatory reporting requirements by
state agencies.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file.
Opposition
California Board of Accountancy
Analysis Prepared by : Rebecca May / B.,P. & C.P. / (916)
319-3301