BILL NUMBER: AB 1914INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Garrick FEBRUARY 22, 2012 An act to add Section 9796 to the Government Code, relating to state and local agency reports. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1914, as introduced, Garrick. Agency reports. Existing law specifies how reports required or requested by law to be submitted by a state or local agency to the Members of either house of the Legislature generally are to be submitted. This bill would require each state or local agency that is required to submit one or more reports to the Legislature to submit, by April 1 of each year, a list of all reports the agency has not yet submitted to the Legislature along with a status summary for each report, including a statement explaining why any overdue report has not yet been submitted. In addition, the bill would state the intent of the Legislature to withhold appropriations for an agency that fails to submit timely reports. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 9796 is added to the Government Code, to read: 9796. (a) For purposes of this section, "report" means a report required by law to be submitted by a state or local agency to the Members of either house of the Legislature generally that the agency is required to submit pursuant to a provision of law that is effective on or after January 1, 2013. (b) By April 1 of each year, each state or local agency that is required to submit one or more reports shall submit to the Legislature a list of all reports the agency has not yet submitted to the Legislature as of that date. The list shall include a status summary for each report and a statement explaining why any overdue report has not yet been submitted. (c) It is the intent of the Legislature to withhold appropriations for an agency that fails to submit timely reports.