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Committee approves substitute to strengthen audit response requirements
Summary
Lawmakers approved a substitute to clarify who must respond to legislative audit findings and retain a criminal interference penalty as a backstop; legislative auditors and the State Board of Education commented on implementation burdens.
The House Operations Committee adopted a first substitute to a bill clarifying the Office of the Legislative Auditor General’s authority to require agency responses to audit recommendations and preserving criminal penalties for interference as an enforcement backstop.
Representative Burton, sponsor of the audit measure, said the substitute clarifies who is the chief officer responsible for ensuring audited units respond to findings and that the…
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