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HB274

State Agency Review and Sunset Process

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In one sentence

This bill requires the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee to review executive branch agencies at least once every six years to decide if they should continue, change, or end.

What it does

  • Requires the legislative audit division to create a staggered schedule for reviewing each agency at least once every six years.
  • Mandates that agencies submit reports on their performance and other requested information by January 1 of their review year.
  • Directs the audit division to verify data, hold public hearings, and recommend whether an agency should end, continue, or reorganize based on specific criteria like cost-effectiveness and mission success.
  • Gives the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee authority to vote on these recommendations and introduce new laws at the start of the next regular session.
  • Sets a rule that agencies automatically terminate on June 30 of the year following their review unless legislation is passed to continue or reorganize them.

Who it affects

  • Executive branch units including divisions, boards, commissions, authorities, funds, and corporations
  • The Legislative Budget and Audit Committee
  • The legislative audit division

Limits and unknowns

  • This law does not apply to principal departments, the University of Alaska, the local boundary commission, or a specific division in the Department of Commerce.
  • Agencies can keep confidential information private unless they choose to waive confidentiality for reviewers; such information cannot be included in reports without permission.

Plain language

Terms to know

Sunset review
A scheduled check to decide if a government group should keep working, change how it works, or stop existing.
Legislative Budget and Audit Committee (LB&A)
The group of lawmakers that reviews agency reports and votes on whether agencies continue or end.

Official record

Sources

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Official summary

STATE AGENCY REVIEW BY LB&A COMMITTEE An Act relating to the powers and duties of the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee; relating to the powers and duties of the legislative audit division; providing for a sunset review of executive branch agencies; and providing for an effective date.

Official activity

Bill history

  1. (H) REFERRED TO LABOR & COMMERCE1479
  2. (H) GOVERNOR'S TRANSMITTAL LETTER1479
  3. (H) FN1: ZERO(GOV)1479
  4. (H) L&C, FIN1479
  5. (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS1479