Committee briefed on oversight tools: information requests, subpoenas, audits and testimony under oath
Staff counsel told the committee that Act 121 authorizes requests for information, program evaluation reports, depositions, subpoenas and Legislative Audit Council reviews or audits, and that testimony to an investigating committee must be given under oath; revenue authorities have limited exceptions.
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Jennifer Dobson summarized the statutory tools available to an investigating committee. "This includes serving a request for information on the agency being studied or investigated... deposing witnesses, issuing subpoenas," she said, and added that the chairman may ask the Legislative Audit Council to review a program evaluation report or conduct an audit.
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