GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 210

Short Title:  Hotline Complaints/Transfer to Leg.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Hensley; and Kuczmarski.
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Referred to:  Judiciary III.
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February 19, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROTECT THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF HOTLINE COMPLAINTS THAT THE AUDITOR TRANSMITS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR INVESTIGATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 147-64.12(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	The Auditor shall not conduct an audit on a program or activity for which he had management responsibility or in which he has been employed during the preceding two years.  The General Assembly shall otherwise provide for the necessary audit of programs and activities within the meaning of this subsection.
If the Auditor's hotline receives a report of allegations of improper governmental activities in a program or activity that the Auditor is prohibited by this subsection from auditing, the Hotline Manager shall transmit the report to the Legislative Administrative Officer or his designee.  The report shall retain the same confidentiality after transmittal to the General Assembly that it had in the possession of the Auditor."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.