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Legislative council outlines biennial reports-repeal process and asks committees to review expiring mandates
Summary
Legislative Counsel Tucker Anderson briefed the Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee on the statutory reports-repeal process, the law’s five‑year sunset intent, and a plan to send surveys to other committees asking whether to repeal, extend or permanently retain reporting requirements.
Tucker Anderson, legislative counsel for the General Assembly, told the Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee that state law expresses an intent that agency reporting requirements expire five years after enactment or five years after the last statutory amendment and that the committee must act to repeal or extend those requirements.
“And then went on to say…that it is the intent of the general assembly, that except for interstate compacts, the requirement to report to the general assembly shall no longer be required after 5 years,” Anderson said. “But as we all know, you can’t bind future assemblies. Right? And law doesn't repeal itself.”
The memo Anderson outlined explains the process: legislative council will compile a list of reports that are “due to expire,” send a survey to each committee of jurisdiction, and ask committee chairs to check one of three options for each report…
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