SB 332 Summary

• Establishes a ten-year evaluation and termination cycle for all Indiana state agencies and programs, requiring periodic review to determine whether agencies should be continued, modified, or eliminated.

• Creates evaluation committees composed of 16 legislative members (8 from each chamber, no more than 4 from the same party per chamber) to oversee agency assessments using federal cost-benefit analysis standards and OMB circulars.

• Requires Indiana universities (IU, Purdue, Ball State, Indiana State, and University of Southern Indiana) to develop internship programs allowing undergraduate and graduate students to conduct agency evaluations while receiving college credit.

• Establishes staggered evaluation schedules beginning in 2011, with education agencies first (termination date June 30, 2013), followed by health and human services, transportation, public safety, economic development, conservation, and general government agencies through 2021.

• Allows the governor to delay agency termination for one year by executive order if beneficial to government services, public safety, economy, environment, or individual well-being, with agencies retaining prior-year appropriations during the delay period.