Senate Government Operations committee debates reactivating Government Accountability Committee; subpoenas stripped from draft

May 7, 2026

Senate Government Operations members discussed attaching S.3.24 to H.67 to revive a Government Accountability Committee, agreed in markup to remove subpoena and deposition authority and to strip a state grant-processing mandate, and debated membership, selection criteria and funding thresholds for issues of "significant public concern."

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The Senate Committee on Government Operations on May 7 took up S.3.24, a draft bill to revive a Government Accountability Committee (GAC), and discussed whether to attach its provisions to the live vehicle H.67.

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