In 2025, the Levin Center conducted a study of all 50 states to examine how legislatures ensure government programs work effectively for citizens. Factors such as legislative oversight committees, routine engagement with executive agencies, collection of casework data, digital transparency tools, and user-centered policy evaluation were of particular importance. The full report can be found here.
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Arizona’s legislature had, at the time of writing, five active committees focusing on oversight, with the help of two oversight partners. Of the five committees, three were quite active with more than seven public hearings in a session by the end of 2024. The Legislature’s webpage allows for the public to provide input through a link, “Request to Speak.” Here, users can submit testimony or comments for upcoming hearings. Two of the oversight committees – the House Government Committee and the House Municipal Oversight and Elections Committee – have easy access on their committee webpages for viewing testimony and comments from the public.
While each of the oversight committees had evidence of some public input at their committee hearings, chairs of the oversight committees do not solicit direct public input through their webpages and no public reports or summaries are available on committee webpages.
