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Bill to eliminate dozens of routine state agency reports draws wide agency support
Summary
Representative Julie Darling presented House Bill 562 to repeal a set of recurring agency reports that agencies and the lieutenant governor said are outdated, duplicative or rarely used. Multiple state agencies testified that removing the requirements would free staff time without eliminating data access for the legislature.
Representative Julie Darling told the Senate State Administration Committee House Bill 562 would remove a set of agency reporting mandates that state officials consider outdated or duplicative. Darling said the amendment she is carrying grew from an initial nine reports to roughly 15 across multiple agencies.
Lieutenant Governor Kristin Juras told the committee the effort responds to a Montana Code Annotated inventory of reporting requirements and that the agencies asking for relief identified reports that are "outdated, duplicative, ... and not being used and no longer serve the purpose for which they were created."
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