This bill would create the permanent Joint Legislative Committee on Taxpayer Accountability.
This bill would provide for the membership, reimbursement, powers, and duties of the committee.
This bill would authorize the committee to review and analyze expenditures and budget requests by state agencies and departments and to make reports and recommendations to the Legislature under certain conditions.
This bill would allow the committee to direct the Chief Examiner of Public Accounts to conduct an audit, review, or examination of any state agency or other entity under certain conditions.
This bill would also require notice to the committee before the Department of Finance could modify or withhold the planned expenditure of funds by state agencies and other entities, and would prohibit certain interagency agreements unless notice is also provided by the Governor to the committee.
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 18
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Ways and Means General Fund
Source: Alabama Legislature