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Representative Johnson pulls bill to trim routine agency reports after committee questions
Summary
Representative Lee Johnson introduced a bill to create a process that would let recurring agency reports fall off a committee’s regular agenda after the third iteration; after extensive questioning about statutory reports and implementation details he withdrew the bill to revise it.
Representative Lee Johnson (District 47) asked the committee to consider a proposal to reduce what he described as "alarm fatigue" from recurring agency reports by creating a process to pause reports that committees no longer want to receive.
Nut graf: Johnson said state agencies currently submit dozens of required and requested reports; his draft would prompt a committee to decide after a third regularly scheduled report whether it still wants to continue receiving the item. He described the proposal as a tool…
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