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Bills would require state tracking of federal‑mandate compliance costs; sponsor says data gap hampers decisions
Summary
Representative Lewis Riggs proposed House Bill 868 to require state agencies to track staff time and other costs of complying with federal mandates; HB 767 was presented as a companion for school districts.
Representative Lewis Riggs told the committee that House Bill 868 would require state agencies to capture and report the costs — particularly staff hours — required to comply with federal mandates. He said the idea arose from a superintendent who gave him a lengthy list of federal and state requirements and lacked reliable information on staff time devoted to compliance.
"This bill would require the state to actually track how much it costs to jump through those federal hoops," Representative Lewis Riggs said, describing an aim to quantify compliance as a kind of cost‑benefit input for policy decisions.
Riggs said the bill’s reporting cadence was set quarterly so the Legislature could evaluate data…
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