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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6667
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 4541
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING AC CESS TO STATE AGENCY DATA HELD BY
STATE CONTRACTORS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 2-90 of the general statutes is 1
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective 2
October 1, 2019): 3
(c) Said auditors shall audit, on a biennial basis if deemed most 4
economical and efficient, or as frequently as they deem necessary, the 5
books and accounts of each officer, department, commission, board 6
and court of the state government, all institutions supported by the 7
state and all public and quasi-public bodies, politic and corporate, 8
created by public or special act of the General Assembly and not 9
required to be audited or subject to reporting requirements, under the 10
provisions of chapter 111. Each such audit may include an examination 11
of any relevant information concerning the department, commission, 12
board or court of state government being audited that is in the 13
possession or control of a private entity that has a contract with such 14
department, commission, board or court. Each such audit may include 15
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an examination of performance in order to determine effectiveness in 16
achieving expressed legislative purposes. The auditors shall report 17
their findings and recommendations to the Governor, the State 18
Comptroller and the joint standing committee of the General Assembly 19
having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the 20
budgets of state agencies. 21
Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019) As used in this section, 22
"contract", "state agency", "data" and "contractor" have the same 23
meanings as provided in section 4e-1 of the general statutes. Any 24
contract between a state contracting agency and a contractor that is 25
entered into, renewed or amended on or after October 1, 2019, shall 26
contain a provision authorizing the state contracting agency to access 27
any data concerning such agency that is in the possession or control of 28
the contractor. 29
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 2-90(c)
Sec. 2 October 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To permit the Auditors of Public Accounts to access any information
concerning a state agency that is held by a state contractor and to
require state contracts to contain a provision authorizing state agencies
to access any of their data held by a contractor.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. DAVIS C., 57th Dist.
H.B. 6667