The trends of activities of the Committee on State Administration and Local Authorities shall be:
1) upon the instruction of the Seimas or on its own initiative, to prepare drafts of legal acts on the issues of state government and public administration, reform of territorial structures, organisation, financing and economic self-independence of the work of local authorities;
2) to consider drafts of laws and other legal acts, prepare conclusions and proposals related to them, on the issues regulating the reforms of state government, public administration and local authorities reform, administrative division of the territory of the State, regulation of the legal relations of public service and local authorities;
3) to consider the Government programme provisions pertaining to State government, public administration and local authorities reform;
4) within the competence of the committee, to consider and present conclusions to the Seimas concerning the candidatures of heads of public authorities, and other political officers who are appointed by the Seimas;
5) to consider the chapters of a draft law on the approval of financial indicators of the State Budget and municipal budgets, to prepare in conjunction with other committees conclusions related to the execution of the State Budget and municipal budgets;
6) to approve the proposals submitted to the Seimas by the Government on the administrative division of the territory of the State and the establishment of territorial boundaries of individual municipalities and counties;
7) to submit conclusions to the Seimas concerning the motivation for introducing the direct rule, the setting of the date of new municipal elections;
8) to discuss the issues within the competence of the committee which have been referred to the committee by the Seimas, the Seimas Board or the Chairman of the Seimas;
9) to consider proposals of the Association of Local Authorities of Lithuania on drafts of laws and other legal acts of the Seimas which are in the process of preparation on the issues of local authorities development;
10) when exercising parliamentary control, to hear the reports and information of institutions of state administration and local authorities pertaining to the implementation of laws of the Republic of Lithuania and other legal acts passed by the Seimas in respect of the issues within the competence of the committee, and to submit related proposals and recommendations to the Seimas, the Government and the Association of Local Authorities of Lithuania.
