HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 1879
1	CHAMBER ACTION
2	Senate House
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12	Representative Ryan offered the following:
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14	Amendment (with title amendment)
15	Remove everything after the enacting clause, and insert:
16	Section 1. A task force is created to study and report on
17	the feasibility and efficiency of combining the Office of
18	Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability and the
19	Office of the Auditor General into an Office of Government
20	Accountability. Members of the task force shall include three
21	members of the House of Representatives, three members of the
22	Senate, and the Auditor General as an ex officio member. The
23	minority leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate
24	shall each appoint one member to the task force. The study shall
25	include a cost analysis, a report on the feasibility of
26	combining auditing and policy analysis within a single office,
27	and a plan specifying costs that are currently duplicated or
28	unnecessary. A final report shall be submitted to the Speaker of
29	the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate by
30	February 29, 2004.
31	Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
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34	Remove the entire title, and insert:
35	A bill to be entitled
36	An act relating to government accountability; creating a
37	task force to study the feasibility and efficiency of
38	combining the Office of Program Policy Analysis and
39	Government Accountability and the Office of the Auditor
40	General; requiring a report; specifying members of the
41	task force; providing an effective date.