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House panel advances bill to track implementation of OLA recommendations
Summary
The Minnesota House Ways and Means Committee voted 14-13 to place House File 3, as amended, on the general register. The bill would require the Office of the Legislative Auditor’s (OLA) past recommendations to be summarized in a matrix and fund follow-up work to verify implementation.
The Minnesota House Ways and Means Committee on Feb. 24 voted to place House File 3, as amended, on the general register after a roll call that recorded 14 ayes and 13 noes.
House File 3, carried by Representative Paul Nash, would direct the Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) to repurpose prior program-evaluation and special-review findings into an accessible matrix that shows which recommendations have been implemented and which have not. The bill includes an A9 author’s amendment that the committee adopted before the roll-call vote.
The bill’s author, Representative Paul Nash, said the proposal would help limit future “fraud, waste and abuse” by giving committee chairs and…
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