Each quarter of the calendar year the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability shall prepare and provide to each member of the General Assembly abstracts and indexes of reports filed with it as reports to the General Assembly. With such abstracts and indexes the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability shall include a convenient form by which each member of the General Assembly may request, from the State Government Report Distribution Center in the State Library, copies of such reports as the member may wish to receive. For the purpose of receiving reports filed under this Section the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability shall succeed to the powers and duties formerly exercised by the Legislative Council.