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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 7087
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E REPORTING OF THE TRIENNIAL AUDIT
OF STATE CONTRACTING AGENCIES BY THE STAT E
CONTRACTING STANDARD S BOARD.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 4e-6 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 2
(a) The board shall conduct audits of state contracting agencies, 3
triennially, to ensure compliance with statutes and regulations 4
concerning procurement. In conducting each such audit, the board 5
shall have access to all contracting and procurement records, may 6
interview any and all personnel responsible for contracting, contract 7
negotiations or procurement and may enter into an agreement with the 8
Auditors of Public Accounts to effectuate such audit. 9
(b) Upon completion of any such audit, the board shall prepare and 10
issue a compliance report for the state contracting agency. Such report 11
shall identify any process or procedure that is inconsistent with 12
statutes and regulations concerning procurement and indicate those 13
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corrective measures the board deems necessary to comply with 14
statutes and regulations concerning procurement requirements. Such 15
report shall be issued and delivered to the state contracting agency not 16
later than thirty days after completion of such audit and shall be a 17
public record. The state contracting agency may provide a written 18
response to the board concerning such report not later than sixty days 19
after receipt of such report and any such response shall be a public 20
record. After receiving such response or after such sixty-day period 21
has elapsed with no response, whichever is earlier, the board may 22
submit such report and the response, if applicable, in accordance with 23
the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the 24
General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to the state 25
contracting agency that is the subject of such report, appropriations 26
and the budgets of state agencies and government administration. 27
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 4e-6
Statement of Purpose:
To authorize the State Contracting Standards Board to submit its
triennial audit report of state contracting agencies and any agency
response to such report to certain legislative committees.
[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. WINKLER, 56th Dist.
H.B. 7087