3-14-101 - Creation Duties.

3-14-101. Creation Duties.

There is created an office of program evaluation within the general assembly which has the duty to:

     (1)  Systematically evaluate, on an appropriate schedule, all programs conducted under the control or auspices of state government;

     (2)  Evaluate programs of local government as directed by resolution of either house of the general assembly or by joint resolution;

     (3)  Furnish to the members of the general assembly reports of the findings of its evaluative studies of state or local governmental programs, agencies, and departments;

     (4)  Prepare, in conjunction with the office of legal services for the general assembly, and distribute legislation which would effectuate any statutory changes recommended in a report of an evaluative study;

     (5)  Provide personnel to serve as committee staff or to assist the staff of any committee of either house of the general assembly which has program evaluation duties;

     (6)  Assist committees and individual members of the general assembly in the evaluation of state and local governmental programs; and

     (7)  Fulfill any other functions specified by law or assigned by any committee of the general assembly and approved by the appropriate speaker.

[Acts 1977, ch. 317, § 1; T.C.A., § 3-1401.]