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Bills · 2009-2010 Regular Session

AB 972

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creation of the Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Oversight Commission to investigate waste, fraud, and abuse in state government and make recommendations to the Joint Committee on Finance.

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill creates a committee to be known as the Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and

Oversight Commission (commission), consisting of the governor; two majority party

senators; two minority party senators; two majority party representatives to the

assembly; two minority party representatives to the assembly; and a public member

appointed by the governor. The commission must examine all areas of state

government and state programs for evidence of waste, fraud, and abuse. No later

than March 1, 2011, the commission must submit a report of its findings and

recommendations to the cochairpersons of the Joint Committee on Finance (JCF).

The report must specify the amount of savings to the state that would occur if the

recommendations contained in the report were implemented.

The bill further provides that, in budget deliberations for the 2011-13 fiscal

biennium, JCF must consider the recommendations of the commission contained in

the report.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Brooks (R) , Kaufert (R) , Kerkman (R) , Kestell (R) , Kleefisch (R) , Kramer (R) , M. Williams (R) , Montgomery (R) , Nygren (R) , Spanbauer (R) , Strachota (R) , Suder (R) , Townsend (R) , Vos (R)

2 cosponsors

Lazich (R) , Schultz (R)

Full history

  1. Apr 22, 2010 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives M. Williams, Vos, Kestell, Montgomery, Strachota, Kerkman, Suder, Townsend, Spanbauer, Kaufert, Brooks, Kramer, Nygren and Kleefisch;Cosponsored by Senators Schultz and Lazich

  2. Apr 22, 2010 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on State Affairs and Homeland Security

  3. Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  4. Jun 10, 2010 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received