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Bipartisan bill to create Office of Inspector General faces questions on overlap with existing oversight
Summary
Senate File 856 would create an Office of Inspector General to detect fraud, waste and abuse in state government; committee members questioned how it would overlap with the Office of the Legislative Auditor and whether it would have prosecutorial authority. The bill was referred to the judiciary committee for further review.
A bipartisan bill to create an Office of Inspector General (OIG) for state government drew questions in committee this week about scope and overlap with existing oversight bodies and now moves to the judiciary committee for further review.
Proponents described the office as more than a fraud investigator—an entity…
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