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Joint Legislative Audit Committee elects chair, raises emergency-audit cost ceiling to $320,000
Summary
At its organizational meeting for the 2025–26 legislative session the Joint Legislative Audit Committee elected Assemblymember Harbidian as chair and approved committee rules that increased the emergency audit cost ceiling from $290,000 to $320,000.
At its organizational meeting for the 2025–26 legislative session, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee elected Assemblymember Harbidian as chair and adopted committee rules that raised the cost ceiling for emergency audits from $290,000 to $320,000.
The action was taken during a short organizational session at which a quorum was present and two items of business were considered: the election of a chair and the adoption of committee rules. The committee’s secretary called the roll before members voted on each item.
The committee unanimously approved the motion to elect Assemblymember Harbidian as chair. A roll call during the vote recorded affirmative responses from Assemblymember Harbidian; Assemblymember DeMio; Assemblymember Hoover; Assemblymember Quirk Silva; Assemblymember Ransom; Assemblymember Valencia; Senator Laird; Senator Ashby; Assemblymember Becker; Assemblymember Cervantes; Assemblymember Cortesi; and Assemblymember Valadares. The motion carried.
Members then considered committee rules proposed for the 2025–26 session. Committee Rule 18, which governs emergency audits, was modified to increase the committee’s cost ceiling for emergency audits from $290,000 to $320,000. The committee approved the rules by roll call. The motion to approve the rules was made and seconded during the meeting; individual makers and seconders were not identified in the transcript.
Meeting remarks were limited. At the outset, committee staff noted that Assemblymember Valencia would temporarily replace Assemblymember Hart for the hearing. After the votes the chair thanked members for a brief meeting and noted that a joint oversight hearing would follow in a few minutes. The chair then adjourned the organizational meeting.
The committee did not take additional substantive actions, issue directives for staff investigations, or adopt new audit assignments during the organizational session. The only substantive policy change recorded in this meeting was the numeric increase to the emergency-audit cost ceiling in Rule 18.
