The Bill Enrollment and Agency Request System (BEARS) is utilized by agencies, the Office of Financial Management (OFM), and the Governor’s Office to create and analyze agency request legislation. BEARS is also used by Agencies, OFM, and the Governor’s Office to make recommendations and decisions on enrolled bills.

Agency Bill Analyses

Agencies can utilize the Agency Bill Analyses section within BEARS to analyze bills working their way through the legislature, with the ability for users to create their own custom lists of bills with filters, sorting and specified columns for each custom view.

The agency administrator and/or coordinator can: 

• Create and assign an analysis or multiple analyses of any given prefiled bill to be prepared by another user within their agency
• Manage (create, edit, delete and review) agency bill analyses for their agency

The agency analyst can:

• Review and edit agency bill analyses once they are created by their agency administrator/coordinator

The agency user can:

• Review agency bill analyses for their agency

Agency Request Legislation

The owner of Agency Request Legislation can:

• Create and assign a request to an Agency Analyst, as well as withdraw a request from the system.
• Manage and control access to information for the purposes of managing, viewing, or updating agency requests.
• Submit agency requests to OFM for recommendations and decisions.

The Office of Financial Management can:

• Review and ask for an agency to revise or withdraw a request.
• Provide information on policy and budget impacts.
• Submit the completed Agency Request to the Governor’s office for review and approval.

Enrolled Bills

Through BEARS, OFM and the Governor’s Office can analyze bills enrolled by the Legislature:

• OFM analyzes the enrolled bills and makes recommendations to the Governor’s Office.
• The Governor’s Office can check-in bills, view OFM recommendations, manage bill actions, vetoes, talking points, and decisions made by the Governor.

Frequently Asked Questions