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Senate concurs in House changes to auditing bill, gives State Auditor limited authority to seek account freezes
Summary
The Utah Senate, under suspension of the rules, concurred with House amendments to first substitute Senate Bill 137 and passed it with an immediate-effective-date provision that would allow the State Auditor to seek temporary judicial freezes of accounts when audits reveal serious questions about funds. The measure was reported passed and will be sent to the House/Speaker for signature.
Senator Bramble, sponsor of first substitute Senate Bill 137, told the Senate the House made two amendments to the bill that change auditing thresholds when a nonprofit receives grant funds and add a temporary, judicial-account-freeze mechanism for the State Auditor when audits uncover serious questions about assets. "During the course of this bill, it turns out that the auditor has been doing a great deal of work, ferreting out financial anomalies ... and he came to us and asked if he could have authority to freeze accounts if in the course of an audit they identify serious…
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