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Senator raises transparency concerns over delayed public audits as sponsor advances bill, adds cosponsors
Summary
An unnamed senator said repeated delays in Office of the Public Auditor reports and the omission of auditor Q&A from committee digests undermine budget work; sponsor Senator Sijus Masi added multiple cosponsors and moved the measure to third reading with no objections.
A senator raised concerns on the legislative floor about repeated delays in reports from the Office of the Public Auditor and the omission of the auditor's committee Q&A from the committee report, while the bill's sponsor, Senator Sijus Masi, added multiple cosponsors and moved the measure to the third-reading file.
The senator (name not specified) told the chamber the auditor's report is due June 30 but has repeatedly arrived too late to inform the legislature's budget work. "We really need it in July, no later if it's going to be of any use for us in our budget deliberations," the senator said, noting that the Office of the Public Auditor's (OPA) timeline for the fiscal year 2024 budget is now November.
The senator also criticized the committee report's summary of the public auditor's…
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