GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 152
HOUSE BILL 210

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.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of June, 1993.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives