Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight

NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY JOINT LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM EVALUATION OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE 300 North Salisbury Street - Room 100 Legislative Office Building Raleigh, North Carolina 27603-5925 Phone: 919.301.1404

AGENDA Chairs February 9, 2015 – 1:30 PM Room 544 Legislative Office Building Senator Fletcher Hartsell 1:30 PM Remarks by Chairs Representative Craig Horn 1:32 PM Approve January 21, 2015 Minutes

Members 1:35 PM Recommend draft legislation reviewed by committee January 21

Senator Stan Bingham • Lisa Wilks, Drafting, based on PED report: Revising State Child Support Incentive System Could Promote Senator Ben Clark Improved Performance of County Programs (July 2014) Req Custodial Parent Cooperate Bill Draft Senator Don Davis o o Federal Child Support Incentive Payments Bill Draft Senator Valerie Foushee • Joyce Jones, Drafting, based on PED report: DHHS Should Integrate State Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities Senator Rick Gunn into the Community-Based System and Improve Performance

Senator Ralph Hise Management (November 2014) o Bill Draft Senator Louis Pate o Draft Summary • Ben Stanley, Drafting, based on PED report: Senator Shirley Randleman North Carolina Needs a Coordinated Strategy to Guide the

Representative Becky Carney Changing Landscape of Veterans Programs (September 2014) o Bill Draft Representative Ted Davis o Draft Summary

Representative Nelson Dollar 1:50 PM Review first drafts of legislation as instructed by committee January 21

Representative Jean Farmer-Butterfield • Jeff Cherry, Drafting, based on PED report: Licensing Processing Fees are Inequitable; Permit DOI Vendor to Representative Pat Hurley Charge Different Processing Fees Based on Effort and Cost (January 2015) Representative Marvin Lucas o Bill Draft Representative Jason Saine o Draft Summary • Kelly Tornow, Research Division Representative Rena Turner Proposed by PED Driver Education and Overnight Respite reports, School of Government to Develop Standards for Pilot Advisory Member Projects Bill Draft Senator Jeff Tarte o o Draft Summary

Staff 2:10 PM Approve reintroduction of updated version of H1037/S749, which did not pass in 2014, relative to prevention of prescription drug abuse John Turcotte, Director Program Evaluation Division • Sean Hamel, Senior Program Evaluator, based on PED report: Doris Gilbert North Carolina Needs to Strengthen Its System for Monitoring and Committee Clerk Preventing the Abuse of Prescribed Controlled Substances (April 2014)

AGENDA (PAGE 2) Chairs February 9, 2015 – 1:30 PM Room 544 Legislative Office Building Senator Fletcher Hartsell

Representative Craig Horn 2:20 PM Review list of committee recommended legislation that did not pass 2013–2014 session Members • John Turcotte, PED Director

Senator Stan Bingham 2:25 PM Consider approval of PED report North Carolina Should Eliminate the Use

Senator Ben Clark of Personal Services Contracts in Favor of Using Existing Mechanisms and instruct staff Senator Don Davis • Meg Kunde, Program Evaluator Senator Valerie Foushee o Presentation slides

Senator Rick Gunn 3:00 PM Consider approval of PED report Implications of Funding Alcohol and Substance Abuse Treatment or Prevention with Alcohol Tax Earmark and Senator Ralph Hise instruct staff

Senator Louis Pate • Sara Nienow, Senior Program Evaluator o Presentation slides Senator Shirley Randleman 3:25 PM Fiscal estimate requested by committee December 17, 2014, and Representative Becky Carney instruct staff

Representative Ted Davis • Brent Lucas, PED and Deborah Landry, Fiscal Research Alternatives proposed by PED report Representative Nelson Dollar Overnight Respite Pilot at Adult Day Care Facilities Perceived as Favorable, but Lacked Objective Measures of Success (October Representative Jean Farmer-Butterfield 2014) Representative Pat Hurley o Report Briefing o Fiscal Analysis Representative Marvin Lucas Adjourn Representative Jason Saine Next full Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee Meeting Representative Rena Turner Date to be announced by Chairs

Advisory Member

Senator Jeff Tarte

Staff

John Turcotte, Director Program Evaluation Division

Doris Gilbert Committee Clerk