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Committee introduces bill to centralize agency reporting with Legislative Services Office
Summary
Representative Scott presented RS 32,332 to require agencies to submit statutorily required reports electronically to the Legislative Services Office and to set a December 15 deadline for reports that lack a statutory date.
Representative Scott told the House State Affairs Committee that RS 32,332 is a trimmed version of a larger review conducted by the Legislative Services Office that cataloged statutory reporting requirements across state law.
Scott said the LSO effort identified roughly 370 code locations requiring reports from more than 105 agencies and that a sizable share of those requirements appear obsolete. "What they learned that over 20% of the reports that were required ... were no longer even relevant," Scott said. He described survey results showing how reports are submitted today: about 25% are delivered in person to committees, 48% by email, and about 28% by mail or other methods.
The bill would require agencies to provide an electronic copy of statutorily required reports to LSO, place responsibility on LSO to organize the reports, and impose a December 15 deadline where the law does not specify a reporting date.
Scott gave three examples of statutory reporting provisions the draft would remove or update, including a one-time report tied to an historical managed-care evaluation and an occupational-licensing reporting provision he described as obsolete; he said he had reviewed those deletions with the Department of Health and Welfare director.
Representative Mickelson moved to introduce RS 32,332; the committee approved the motion. The motion to introduce was carried by voice vote (individual roll-call tallies are not included in the transcript).
