A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT appropriating funds to establish new personnel positions in the office of the state auditor for additional performance audit teams.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Office of the State Auditor the sum of five hundred twenty-three thousand five hundred thirty‑eight dollars ($523,538) in the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of eight hundred ninety-seven thousand eight hundred sixty dollars ($897,860) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to establish and provide the support costs for nine new personnel positions. These funds will enable the Office of the State Auditor (OSA) to fulfill its mission under G.S. 147‑62 of ensuring accountability in State government and providing assistance to government officials and employees in carrying out their responsibilities in an efficient, economical, and effective manner. This will be done by increasing the OSA's ability to carry out performance audits through the creation of one new performance audit team in the first year and another new team in the second year.
SECTION 1.(b)  By March 1, 2009, the State Auditor shall report to the General Assembly on the following:
(1)	The status and accomplishments of the new performance audit teams funded by this act.
(2)	The projected costs and benefits of funding additional performance audit teams in the 2009‑2010 fiscal biennium.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.