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                                                                  AB 1914
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          Date of Hearing:   May 2, 2012

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                   AB 1914 (Garrick) - As Amended:  April 9, 2012 

          Policy Committee:                              Business and 
          Professions  Vote:                            8 - 0 

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires any state or local agency that is required to 
          submit one or more reports to the Legislature to submit by April 
          1 of each year, a list of all reports the agency has not yet 
          submitted along with a status summary for each report, including 
          a statement explaining why an overdue report has not yet been 
          submitted and a compliance plan for submitting the required 
          report. In addition, the bill allows the Legislature to withhold 
          appropriations for an agency that fails to submit a report on 
          time.  

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Unknown costs,  but given the large number of statutorily 
          required reports, potentially in excess of $150,000 per year for 
          the workload associated every agency developing a list of 
          reports, a statement of explanation, and a compliance plan for 
          submitting the required reports. 

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  . The intent of this legislation is to develop a 
            system to monitor the completion of reports that state 
            agencies are required to provide to the Legislature and to 
            hold them accountable for failing to provide the reports by 
            the statutory deadline.  This bill will require an update to 
            be submitted by April 1 of every year to the Legislature.  
            This will provide the necessary information for the budget 
            committee so that they can determine whether or not to 
            withhold allocations from those agencies which are delinquent 
            in delivering their required reports.  








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           2)Background  .  Statutorily required reports under current law 
            are generally 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 must include a provision 
            repealing or making inoperative the reporting requirement four 
            years after the due date.



           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916) 
          319-2081