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Minn. lawmakers advance measures to tighten fraud reporting and expand whistleblower protections
Summary
State representatives outlined House File 3 and an accompanying whistleblower bill to increase Office of the Legislative Auditor follow-up, create a new fraud/misuse category, and extend protections to more state employees, including proposed channels for reporting and limits imposed by Chapter 13 data rules.
State Representative Jim Nash, author of House File 3, told a legislative hearing that the bill would require annual reports based on Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) findings to be sent to ranking members of committees that oversee funding, and would give lawmakers more information to check whether internal controls have been met by agencies and grantees.
"House File 3 is an effort to, in many ways, get more out of the information that we already are getting from our OLA reports," Nash said. He said the bill is intended to reduce opportunities for waste, fraud and abuse and that the measure "will be on the floor later today." Nash cited Feeding Our Future and other OLA reports as examples where recommended internal controls were not always followed.
Representative Kristen Robbins, chair of the House fraud committee, described a companion bill to expand whistleblower protections. Robbins said the measure would broaden existing protections…
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