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Legislature weighs bill letting public auditor petition Superior Court to enforce audit recommendations
Summary
Senator Perez moved to place Bill 17-38 on third reading; the measure would clarify when the Office of Public Accountability may petition the Superior Court of Guam to compel agencies to implement corrective actions from audits.
At a session of the Guam Legislature (date not specified), Senator Perez moved to place Bill 17-38, as amended by the Committee on Finance and Government Operations, into the third-reading file and discussed the measure aloud.
The bill would amend the Guam Code Annotated to clarify the process by which the Office of Public Accountability (OPA) may seek judicial enforcement when government agencies do not implement corrective actions recommended in audits. Under the text presented in the session, three conditions must be met before the OPA can petition the Superior Court of Guam: an agency’s failure to implement a corrective-action plan, the agency’s provision of a satisfactory explanation for nonimplementation, and nonconcurrence by…
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