Legislative Reports Repeal ARL
Agency
Commerce, Department of
Title of action
Legislative Reports Repeal ARL
Date significant agency action was initiated
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Category
Agency-request legislation
Brief description of significant agency actions for which the agency is initiating an environmental justice assessment.
Commerce complies with dozens of legislative reporting requirements every year. Many of the reports: have due dates that don’t align with the availability of the information needed for the report; were the priority of a previous Governor but not the current Governor; or would better serve communities as updates on the Commerce website rather than as a legislative report. Commerce staff can strengthen communities by spending less time on reporting requirements and more time doing the work to implement programs in the communities.
This ARL will help us address this by streamlining the reporting workload for program staff, freeing them up to do more impactful work in and with communities. As part of the ARL process, we will review our current list of statutorily-required legislative reports and create a list of see which reports can be eliminated or changed to the more efficient website publication process. That list will be the focus of this ARL and will lead to changes in the relevant reporting statutes. The changes will free up program staff to do more programmatic work. It will save money from reducing the need to hire third-party contractors to write the report for us, when we don’t have staff available to write them. It also lessens the amount of time and money that usually goes into editing those third-party reports.
Methods for providing public comment for agency consideration as part of the environmental justice assessment.
We will be having conversations with the Gov's office, OFM, other state agencies, local governments, and the legislature to best determine which reports make sense to repeal or amend. Once the list is complete, we will present it at a HEAL Community Involvement Session for review and comments by interested community members. We will also accept emailed comments.
Link to agency webpage where the action is posted.
Status