Bill Text: TX SB790 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to certain audit and reporting requirements of regional planning commissions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-02 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB790 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB790-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to certain audit and reporting requirements of regional planning commissions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-02 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB790 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB790-Comm_Sub.html
By: Buckingham | S.B. No. 790 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 12, 2019; March 1, 2019, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental | ||
Relations; April 1, 2019, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 1, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to certain audit and reporting requirements of regional | ||
planning commissions. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 391.0095(e), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(e) A commission shall send to the governor, the state | ||
auditor, [ |
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of each report and audit required under this section or under | ||
Section 391.009. The state auditor may review each audit and | ||
report, subject to a risk assessment performed by the state auditor | ||
and to the legislative audit committee's approval of including the | ||
review in the audit plan under Section 321.013, Government Code. If | ||
the state auditor reviews the audit or report, the state auditor | ||
must be given access to working papers and other supporting | ||
documentation that the state auditor determines is necessary to | ||
perform the review. If the state auditor finds significant issues | ||
involving the administration or operation of a commission or its | ||
programs, the state auditor shall report its findings and related | ||
recommendations to the legislative audit committee, the governor, | ||
and the commission. The governor and the legislative audit | ||
committee may direct the commission to prepare a corrective action | ||
plan or other response to the state auditor's findings or | ||
recommendations. The legislative audit committee may direct the | ||
state auditor to perform any additional audit or investigative work | ||
that the committee determines is necessary. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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