2025 bills / H.B. 215
H.B. 215 Office of Legislative Auditor General Provisions (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill changes the rules for legislative audits conducted by the Legislature's auditor general. It adjusts how audited entities must respond, who may be named to respond, and how response plans are updated, and it changes the crime of interfering with an audit, while also letting the auditor general review and monitor the Utah System of Higher Education and share certain information with audited entities.
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Official description
- restates the legislative auditor general's constitutional authority
- amends provisions governing information that maybe subject to federal law and is requested by the legislative auditor general from an entity, including the State Tax Commission
- authorizes the legislative auditor general to provide certain information to an audited entity
- amends provisions governing criminal interference with a legislative audit
- amends the definition of "chief officer" for purposes of an entity responding to a legislative audit
- permits the legislative auditor general to identify an individual other than a chief officer to respond to a legislative audit
- amends provisions governing an audit response plan and an update to a plan
- authorizes the legislative auditor general to review and monitor the Utah System of Higher Education
- makes other technical and conforming changes
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- When H.B. 215 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
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Every vote
- 9 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 7, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 7, 2025Who voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how