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Committee advances bill requiring DAC to provide tracked data to legislative leaders
Summary
House Bill 2376 would require DAC (agency referenced in committee) to make existing tracked data available to the Speaker, Pro Tem and Governor; sponsor said the change addresses a legislative oversight in timing and does not create a new data-collection burden.
A sponsor presented House Bill 2,376 as a small change to an earlier act intended to improve transparency in how the Department or agency referred to as DAC provides reports to legislative leadership.
The sponsor said DAC already tracks the relevant data and that the bill simply directs the agency to provide that information to the speaker of the House, the pro tem and the governor on an ongoing basis. The sponsor described the omission as a legislative oversight rather than misconduct by DAC and said the requested information covers a very small number of individuals where a request had been declined.
During questioning, committee members asked whether the DAC had been withholding material or whether the problem was that the legislature had not requested the reports in a timely way; the sponsor said DAC acted in good faith and that the omission was the legislature’s fault. The sponsor moved the bill for adoption; the committee reported the bill as do pass, recorded in the transcript as 12-0.
Next steps: The bill will be scheduled for House floor consideration with the committee’s do-pass recommendation.
