State agencies: accountability.

Existing law establishes within state government eight agencies. Existing law requires each agency to be under the supervision of an executive officer known as the secretary. Existing law requires the secretary of each agency to review the operations and evaluate the performance at appropriate intervals of each department, office, or other unit of that agency, and to seek continually to improve the organization structure, operating policies, and management information systems of each department, office, or other unit. This bill would require the secretary of each agency, by January 1, 2019, and every year thereafter, to review all programs that were created or expanded either by statute or regulation in the previous year that a department, office, or unit of that agency is responsible for administering. The bill would require the secretary to establish metrics to determine the success of that program, and to continuously evaluate the performance of that program. The bill would require the secretary to publish on his or her Internet Web site, and the Internet Web site of the relevant department, office, or unit responsible for administering the program, an accountability report that includes specified information.