First Hearing Addresses Proposals to Enhance Policy and Budget Development
Where: State Capitol, Sacramento, Room 4202
When: 9 AM – 4:30 PM, Thursday, October 22
Senator Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord) and Assembly member Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) will convene the first joint hearing of each house’s Select Committee on Improving State Government. Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass formed the bipartisan select committees in September to address the pressing need for state governmental reform. The committees will jointly host five hearings at various locations throughout the state.
Panelists:
- Bill Lockyer, State Treasurer and former President Pro Tem of the California State Senate
- Robert Naylor, former Republican Leader, California State Assembly
- Laura Chick, Inspector General of California, former Los Angeles City Controller
- Mac Taylor, Legislative Analyst of California
- William Hauck, Chairman, California Constitution Revision Commission
- Fred Silva, Senior Fiscal Policy Advisor, California Forward and former Executive Secretary, California Constitution Revision Commission
- Bruce Cain, Executive Director, U.C. Washington Center and former Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California at Berkeley
- Scott Pattison, Executive Director, National Association of State Budget Officers
- Jaime Regalado, Director, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Public Affairs in Los Angeles
9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. -- Topic: Possible legislative branch reforms
- Previous California reform efforts
- Federal and state models of legislative decision-making
- Bipartisanship, oversight, integrity
12:30 to 1:15 p.m. -- Break
1:15 to 4:30 p.m. -- Topic: Possible budget process reforms
- State budget decision-making models
- Long-term planning and accountability
Contact for Senator DeSaulnier: Eve Hightower (916-651-4007)
Contact for Assembly member Feuer: Arianna Smith (916-319-2042)
Note: In some previous documents, the Select Committees on Improving State Government have been referred to as the Joint Select Committee on Reform.