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Radical Revamp of State Bureaucracy
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In the most intimate of ways, the plan would influence how Californians live their lives. It would change the cutoff date for entering kindergarten; the method in which people answer questions on driver's license exams; the size of jackpots collected by lottery winners; and the procedures for officially complaining about a bad haircut.
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Many of the thousands of proposed changes aim to make government more manageable — to logically organize a state bureaucracy that now relies on hundreds of agencies, departments, divisions, boards and commissions, many with duplicative or overlapping jurisdictions.
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Schwarzenegger has created a 21-person commission that will hold five public hearings on the report throughout the state in August and September. The proposed government reorganization will go to the Little Hoover Commission, which will make recommendations to Schwarzenegger and the Legislature. The governor is expected to send a final version of the plan to the Legislature next year.
"In order for it to get the green light from the Legislature, it's got to be close to perfect," Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles) said. "And if it isn't, I think it's going to run into a lot of problems."
The more things change, the more they stay the same!!!