FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 158

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

 

 

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES ZWEIFEL AND CORCORAN (Co-sponsors).

         Read 1st time January 13, 2003, and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

0961L.01I

 

AN ACT

To repeal section 29.270, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to state audits.




Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:


            Section A. Section 29.270, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 29.270, to read as follows:

            29.270. 1. The state auditor shall report to the governor as soon as possible the result of his or her findings from an examination of the state institutions, and report to the elective officers the result of his or her findings from an examination of their appointive officers, setting out in detail the findings as to the collection and disbursements of public funds and the mode of bookkeeping and accounting in force in such institution, and as soon as possible after the completion of the examination of a county's officers and institutions, he or she shall report in writing the findings to the county court or prosecuting attorney or proper officer thereof, setting out in detail the results as to the collection and disbursement of county funds and the mode of bookkeeping and accounting in use and such recommendations as may be proper. All audit reports and reports of examinations made by the state auditor shall be made a matter of public record. The state auditor shall report to each general assembly his findings and recommendations resulting from audits and examinations of the various state officials and institutions made by him or her in accordance with law.

            2. Any state agency receiving a state auditor report with items of significant concern or any fiscal impact in which the agency has not agreed with the audit findings and audit recommendation shall submit such findings along with the agency response or reasoning to members of the house budget committee and the senate appropriations committee along with their budget documents prior to hearings conducted by such committee on proposed appropriations for the following fiscal year.