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House Government Operations sets Jan. 15, 2026 deadline to collect surveys for reports-repeal bill
Summary
Legislative counsel and committee members agreed to send surveys to legislative committees asking whether statutorily required reports (covering 2017–2028) remain necessary, with responses due Jan. 15, 2026; silence will be treated as assent to repeal.
The House Committee on Government Operations & Military Affairs set a Jan. 15, 2026, deadline for legislative committees to return surveys on whether statutorily required reports should remain in law, and directed legislative counsel to bundle responses and prepare a 2026 reports-repeal bill.
Tucker Anderson, Legislative Counsel, told the committee the memo and attached spreadsheet list the reports for the years 2017 through 2028 and that committees should answer one core question: “The question is whether this ongoing report is necessary for legislative work.” He told members committees can always request information from state agencies and use investigative authority to seek written testimony or require officers to appear.
The memo, which committee staff will post to committee pages, will ask committees to classify each report as 1) no longer useful and should be repealed, 2) useful but review in five years, or 3) fundamental and should remain permanently required. Anderson said the plan is to “prepare the 2026 reports repeal bill to reflect committee feedback.”
Committee members flagged that some recipient committees have changed names or jurisdiction since the reports were first recorded, which will require reorganizing surveys to align reports with current committee subject matter. The committee identified agriculture, environment and energy among the first groups to receive the survey because their jurisdictions have shifted and some entries are more complex to compile.
Anderson said the memo will spell out how to return the surveys and that responses typically should be sent to the chair with Legislative Council copied so counsel can collate replies. He also said the memo will include a clear “drop-dead” date; he warned that “if they don't respond by whatever deadline the committee chooses, that will be taken to mean that the requirement should be repealed,” a standard the committee accepted for the exercise.
As surveys are completed, Anderson will bundle them with a memo and notify the committee; the committee agreed he should send them to the receiving committees when ready rather than waiting to distribute all at once. The committee estimated the work equates to fewer than two reports per individual among committee members once divided.
