House of Representatives

HB 2488

sunset review; five years

Sponsors: Representatives Flake, Johnson, Senator Brown

 

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Committee on Government Operations

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Caucus and COW

 

 

As Passed the House

 

HB 2488 changes the sunset review cycle from ten to five years.

History

The sunset review process was established by Laws 1978, Chapter 210, to review the purpose and functions of state agencies to determine whether the agency should be terminated, continued, or modified.  Currently, the review process is on a 10-year cycle, in which each new agency is given 10 years before it is reviewed.  The audit is performed by the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) or a Committee of Reference (COR), which is a subcommittee made up of House and Senate members.  If the COR does the audit, there are questions set forth in statute that the agency must answer as a self-audit.  A public hearing is also conducted, where testimony regarding the audit is taken from the public or agency staff.  Following the audit, the OAG or COR must present a report that includes a recommendation to continue, revise, consolidate or terminate that agency. 

 

Provisions

·                      Changes the sunset review cycle from ten to five years.

·                      Changes the  modified ten-year revolving audits to five-year revolving audits and changes their statutory dates as follows:

1)      Department of Education from July 1, 1996 to July 1, 2001.

2)      Programs established by the legislature within the judiciary from July 1, 1997 to July 1, 2002.

            3)   ASU, ASU West, ASU East, UofA, NAU from July 1, 1998 to July 1, 2003.

·                      Repeals all the sunsets scheduled more than five years out and reassigns new sunset dates within a cycle for the next five-years.

·                      Requires all agencies established after June 30, 2000 to fall into the new five-year review cycle.

 

HB 2488 was amended in the Government Operations committee to conform program expiration dates to the five-year sunset cycle.

HB 2488 failed to pass Committee of the Whole.

 

 

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44th Legislature                                                                                         Analyst Initials _______

Second Regular Session                                                                                      February 14, 2000

 

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