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House advances bill to create joint oversight committee and performance office
Summary
H.702 would establish a joint oversight and accountability committee with subpoena power and create a Division of Performance Accountability to provide nonpartisan performance notes and monitoring; the House amended the bill and ordered third reading after committee recommendations and floor questions about selection and independence.
Member from Cambridge presented H.702, which would add a Joint Government Oversight and Accountability Committee (eight members: four House, four Senate), require annual reports on oversight activity, and create a Division of Performance Accountability to produce nonpartisan performance notes describing policy goals, metrics and estimated savings or return on investment.
The bill gives the committee authority to select issues of significant public concern to examine—defined to include…
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