State government: reporting requirements: required repealer.

Existing law requires or requests various state and local agencies to submit reports on specified topics to the Legislature, the Governor, or both. Existing law requires a report that is to be made to the Members of either house of the Legislature to instead be submitted to the Legislative Counsel, the Secretary of the Senate, and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly. Each of these reports is required to include a summary of its contents, which the Legislative Counsel is required to provide to each Member of the appropriate house of the Legislature. Existing law also requires the Legislative Counsel to prepare and publish a list of all the reports that state and local agencies are required to submit, and, upon request, to provide aid and assistance to any Member of the Legislature with respect to a bill, resolution, or measure, including drafting a bill into its proper form. This bill would require that the report submitted by a state or local agency to the Members of either house of the Legislature generally, be submitted as a printed copy to both the Legislative Counsel and the Secretary of the Senate, and as an electronic copy to the Chief Clerk of the Assembly. The bill would further require that the summary of a report made by a state agency to either house of the Legislature be submitted to the Members of the appropriate house by that agency, instead of by the Legislative Counsel. The bill would also specifically require the Legislative Counsel to maintain the list of state and local agencies' reports in a specified manner, including maintaining the list in an electronic format and deleting specified reports from the list. This bill would also require any bill that requires a state agency to submit a report on any subject to either house of the Legislature, a committee or office of either house of the Legislature, or the Legislative Counsel Bureau to include a provision that repeals the reporting requirement, or makes the requirement inoperative, no later than a date 4 years following the operative date of the bill or 4 years after the due date of any report required every 4 or more years. The bill would also require the Legislative Counsel, in drafting a bill or amendment that includes a reporting requirement as described above, to include a provision repealing the reporting requirement or making the requirement inoperative, as specified, unless directed to do otherwise. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.