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[Rep. Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Out H686. Okay, back at the House Government Operations and Military Affairs. Just picking back up on reports repeal H907. And we have the bill reporter from Senate, the law, Senator Tanya Biehlowski here with us. Thank you for joining us. And we just had a question about a particular report, the Genuine Progress Indicator Report, and rep Nugent was our bill reporter, so there's some questions about that. I was
[Rep. Kate Nugent (Member)]: just wondering if you could give a high level narrative, sorry, about the thinking of putting that back in.
[Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky]: I thought they revealed it. That's what we intended to do.
[Rep. Matthew Birong (Chair)]: So, counsel, that might have a question for you to decipher this for us. Okay, well, your time.
[Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky]: That's the high level overview if that is in fact what we did is that was a mistake.
[Rep. Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Good to know.
[Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky]: And it sounds like this bill may be coming back to us with an amendment anyways. So, if we did make that mistake, we would welcome you correcting it. The intent was to repeal it. Okay. Okay, so we did repeal it.
[Rep. Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Okay, great. So do you know counsel which one was actually brought back or if there wasn't one that we repealed that was requested to come back. Not to put you on the spot, but you are on the spot. And if you need more time, you could maybe let the senator go and he'd come back to you. Rep Nugent has questions.
[Rep. Kate Nugent (Member)]: I guess there's any other that were put back in that you can think of that you would want to
[Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky]: I should have brought my notes with you. I did not. I do think there might have been one or two. There were some of them that we moved from being yearly reports to being biennial reports. So we would just get them once a biennium. And we did manage to get in all of the agencies. And actually, even some of our committees have put repeals in their bills. So we were able to put a little pressure on our side. But I would leave it to counsel to confirm whether or not we brought any back. But all of the decisions we made were made with the agencies or entities as part of the conversation. I think we may have repealed some more than you did. Like, I know we repealed temporary workers, seasonal workers, because those are all available in real time on the DHR dashboard, which I think is actually more helpful than waiting for a point in time yearly report, being able to just go online and look at what's the status today. And some of the additional repeals that we did do were because the data in those reports is available publicly in a more dynamic way. And then did, there is an addition to the bill that was not contemplated or dealt with in either bill, and that is the Cybersecurity Advisory Council report. We had asked for the entity that did the cybersecurity and IT report to come in, and there was some confusion. We brought the wrong entity in, and they actually articulated some changes they needed made to their report. So while it wasn't in the bill or slated for review, we figured we had this vehicle in front of us, if they needed changes, we should do it. So we keep the cybersecurity and IT report that comes from the Agency of Digital Services. I think we all agreed that that's a pretty critical report, but we made some changes to the Cybersecurity Advisory Council report and allowing that report to be an oral report and shifting out the deadline. So currently, that report is due January 15, and we shifted it out to February 15. So there was actually time in the session for them to provide that oral report. And that came from the chair of that council really saying that telling us that that report was better suited to be this type of conversation than an actual written report due to what we're asking them to report. So that is an addition to the bill that was not in the bill. And I no longer see counsel looking through their notes, so they may be able to answer the question that I've bought some time for them to answer.
[Legislative Counsel (unnamed)]: Thank you. Counsel? Get the record to double by the City Council. Pieces that we'll remove from the repeal section were the one before. So it's Act 59, twenty eleven, as a report on Supreme Court Public Records cases. This is modified later in the policy. It was removed from what we developed and was modified so that the court of mediator will report every property on all the critical risk cases. And then the second one, which was related to the Act 119, it does pay attention to reports on various professional licenses issued to service members and veterans. This also was modified later on in the federal court senate so that that would also be reported every other year.
[Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky]: And I can speak to our reasoning. So we did have the court administrator in who let us know that that temporary employee report is not a challenge, and they welcome continuing to do it. We didn't feel like we needed the data every year, so we moved it to a biennial report. And the various reporting on veteran service licenses, it was the Governor's Veteran Advisory Council didn't feel that that needed to be repealed, but we did, again, move it to a biennial report. It's not We didn't make it permanent, so I think we can reevaluate if that system is working in a few years. And so those were the decisions that we made based on what we've heard from the people sort of either asking for the information or producing the information. And judiciary temporary employees are not available on a public site like the other temporary employees are.
[Rep. Matthew Birong (Chair)]: I imagine that's for security purposes? Probably, yeah. Any additional questions for the senator or counsel? Okay, thank you very much for coming up. We're going to take a straw poll if nobody else has any questions on this report. And you will get an amendment to it based on the conversation we've had earlier, but we're not changing anything in this proposal of amendment that you sent us. I have been apprised of the amendment being added, and I believe the plan on our side is to simply keep up. Great. Thank you very much. So, favorable thumbs for H-nine zero seven reports repeal? That looks sorry. Think we are. Or is that
[Rep. Kate Nugent (Member)]: a correction? Because there weren't any reports that they put back in. Is that a correction of this?
[Rep. Matthew Birong (Chair)]: That a correction, or was that your Your notes was Okay, for confirming that, though. So the bill is unchanged. The set up proposal amendment is unchanged, and we are concurring with one proposal of amendment, which was the Markot amendment. So, favorable thumbs? Are you voting? Okay, so that is unanimous,
[Rep. Kate Nugent (Member)]: eleven-zero-zero. Thank you all.