Assembly Bill A2605

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Provides for follow-up reviews by the state comptroller to examine the implementation status of recommendations of previously conducted audits

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  • Introduced
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2015-A2605 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §170, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5717
2011-2012: A2258
2013-2014: A4367

2015-A2605 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for follow-up reviews by the state comptroller to examine the implementation status of recommendations of previously conducted audits; requires audited agencies to continue to provide 90 day updates to all recipients of the initial 90 day report until all recommendations to which it concurs have been implemented.

2015-A2605 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2605

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 20, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. BRENNAN, DINOWITZ, ORTIZ, COLTON, CLARK, ENGLE-
  BRIGHT, KAVANAGH, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of  A.  ABBATE,
  GALEF,  GOTTFRIED,  GUNTHER, JAFFEE, MARKEY, ROSENTHAL, SCARBOROUGH --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  audit  and  follow-up
  reviews of agencies by the state comptroller and reports of corrective
  action

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 170 of the executive law, as added by  chapter  218
of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
  S 170. Audit  AND  FOLLOW-UP  REVIEWS  of  agencies by the state comp-
troller; reports of corrective action. 1. Whenever the state comptroller
shall conduct an audit of the activities and operations of  any  depart-
ment,  bureau,  board,  commission,  authority  or  any  other agency or
instrumentality, he OR SHE shall submit a [tenative]  DRAFT  copy  of  a
report of such audit to the head of the entity audited. The head of such
entity  may  submit  a written response to such [tentative] DRAFT report
within thirty days of the receipt thereof. The state  comptroller  shall
thereafter  submit  a  final  report of such audit which shall contain a
complete copy of the response, if  any,  submitted  to  the  [tentative]
DRAFT  report.  If the final report makes recommendations for corrective
action, the head of the entity audited shall report within  ninety  days
after  receipt  thereof  to  the  governor,  the state comptroller, the
TEMPORARY president  OF THE SENATE, [president pro tem and]  THE minori-
ty leader of the senate, the speaker, majority and minority  leaders  of
the  assembly,  and  the  chairman  and  ranking minority members of the
senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means  committees  of
the  state legislature what steps were taken to implement such recommen-
dations, and, where recommendations were not  implemented,  the  reasons
therefor,  INCLUDING  WHETHER  ALTERNATE  ACTIONS  HAVE  BEEN TAKEN THAT

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01331-01-5

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