2025 bills / S.B. 154
S.B. 154 Legislative Audit Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill changes the rules for how the legislative auditor general gets information from state entities during audits. It lets entities share certain privileged records with the auditor, requires them to formally claim any privilege they use to withhold records, and sends disputed claims to an arbitrator, while also giving the auditor authority to review the Utah System of Higher Education.
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Official description
- restates the authority of the legislative auditor general
- amends provisions governing information that may be subject to federal law and is requested by the legislative auditor general from an entity, including the State Tax Commission
- excludes certain information provided to the legislative auditor general from the definition of "record"
- permits an entity to provide certain privileged items to the legislative auditor general
- requires an entity that withholds certain privileged items from the legislative auditor general to expressly assert a privilege
- permits the legislative auditor general to contest a privilege claim
- requires, in certain circumstances, an entity to submit privileged items to an arbitrator to determine a privilege claim
- authorizes the legislative auditor general to provide certain information to an audited entity
- amends the definition of "chief officer" for purposes of an entity responding 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
- coordinates enactment of provisions with S.J.R. 4, Joint Resolution Amending Court Rules on Attorney Confidentiality
- makes technical corrections
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 154 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 154 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 6 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 12 yes, 1 noHouse Government Operations Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 3 noHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 75 yes, 0 noFinal House vote · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how
- 20 yes, 5 no, 4 absentSenate vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Jan 31, 2025 Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
- Feb 18, 2025 Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee▶ Watch
- Mar 3, 2025 House Government Operations Committee▶ Watch
- 21/2/2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- 24/2/2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Jul 3, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- Jul 3, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- Jul 3, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch