(a) By June 30, 1995, each state agency shall inventory all reports and forms it requires businesses to complete and submit in order to comply with agency requirements. As part of this inventory, each state agency shall eliminate all forms it determines are no longer needed to enable the agency to carry out its statutory responsibilities. By June 30, 1995, each state agency shall submit this inventory to the Director of General Services in order to enable the director to carry out his or her responsibilities under subdivision (c) of Section 14771.

(b) Commencing December 31, 1995, and annually thereafter, each state agency shall review one-third of the reports and forms it requires businesses to submit for compliance purposes, so that each report or form is reviewed on a triennial basis. Upon review, a report or form shall be eliminated unless the agency head certifies that each reporting requirement meets all of the following criteria:

(1) The continued reporting requirement is necessary for the agency to meet specifically identified statutory responsibilities.

(2) The agency has authority to require the report.

(3) The report is not duplicatory of, or in conflict with, other reports required of business by the agency or other agencies of state government.

(4) The information cannot be obtained in a more cost-effective manner.

(5) The agency actually reviewed, and is actively using, the information obtained in the previous reports required of business.

(c) If an agency head certifies that a reporting requirement meets the criteria specified in subdivision (b), any business required to comply with that requirement may, consistent with Section 8526, appeal that certification to the Office of Administrative Hearings.

(d) Notwithstanding Section 14773, this section shall apply to all state agencies as defined in Section 11000.

(e) This section shall not apply to any report or form required by statute, any regulation adopted pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (Ch. 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340), Pt. 1), or any judicial or administrative order.

(f) This section shall not be construed to eliminate any requirement imposed on a state agency to comply with the rulemaking portion of the Administrative Procedure Act (Ch. 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340), Pt. 1).

(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 769, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1995.)