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House and Senate government operations review reports-repeal survey; counsel warns nonresponse will be treated as assent to repeal
Summary
At a Jan. 20 joint hearing, legislative counsel Tucker Anderson told members that surveys on statutory reports are due Friday and that failure to reply will be treated as a recommendation to repeal; committees discussed retaining, extending or repealing individual reports and agreed to follow up with agencies that did not respond.
BURLINGTON — House Government Operations, joined by Senate Government Operations, held a joint hearing on Jan. 20 to review a cross‑chamber “reports repeal” survey and to decide which statutorily required reports should be repealed, extended or retained. Legislative counsel Tucker Anderson told members that surveys are due Friday and that nonresponse will be treated as a recommendation to repeal the listed reports.
"The failure to respond by the deadline is interpreted by this committee as an indication that the reports should be repealed," Anderson said, summarizing the process and the bill that will follow at the next step in the House before going to the Senate.
Why it matters: the review is a housekeeping step intended to remove obsolete or duplicative reporting requirements from statute and to focus legislative oversight on reports that have active policy value. Members said the process also surfaces gaps in agency capacity and in committee awareness of which reports are being used.
Counsel and members walked through a spreadsheet of about 19 reports assigned to their…
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