HB 1029 - Currently, the Oversight Division of the Committee on Legislative Research conducts management and program audits. This act replaces those audits with program evaluations of state agencies, including budget transparency and accountability evaluations. Program evaluations by the Division shall, in addition to the current requirement of determining whether the objectives and intended benefits are being achieved, indicate whether the absence of such achievements suggests the need for correction or additional legislation. Progress reports on program evaluations shall be made at least quarterly, rather than monthly, to the committee.
The Division Director shall present program evaluations completed during the previous legislative interim to the appropriate committee of each chamber during early hearings of that committee in the next regular session. Currently, the Division Director shall present a report on programs scheduled to sunset to General Assembly and the Governor at the beginning of each regular session of the General Assembly. This act requires such report to be presented to the House Budget Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee at the request of the chairs of the Committees.
JIM ERTLE