Oklahoma 2022 2022 Regular Session

Oklahoma House Bill HB1058 Amended / Bill

Filed 04/14/2022

                     
 
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SENATE FLOOR VERSION 
April 13, 2022 
 
 
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE 
FOR ENGROSSED 
HOUSE BILL NO. 1058 	By: Boles of the House 
 
  and 
 
  Taylor and Hall of the 
Senate 
 
 
 
 
An Act relating to cities and towns; pr oviding short 
title; amending 11 O.S. 2021, Sec tion 17-105, which 
relates to annual audits of municipalities; 
increasing municipal income threshold for required 
annual or biennial audits to be conducted; modify ing 
manner in which threshold is calculated; m odifying 
statutory references; defining scope o f biennial 
audit; deleting certain required procedures; 
authorizing the use of alternate auditing procedure; 
directing development of alternate auditing procedure 
in collaboration with certain entities; providing 
time limitation for use of alternate auditing 
procedure; providing that act shall sunset by 
operation of law unless certain conditions have been 
met; requiring alternate auditing procedure to meet 
certain attestation standards; extending time for 
filing of audit; providing for additional extension 
of time under certain conditions; including and 
excluding income from certain trusts in calculating 
municipal income; amending 11 O.S. 2021, Section 17-
107, which relates to the failure to file an audit; 
specifying condition under which withholding of 
certain gasoline taxes shall cease; requiring certain 
withheld funds to be deposited in certain revolving 
fund; creating the Special Investigative Unit 
Auditing Revolving Fund; making fund continuing and 
nonfiscal; stating sources of revenue; stating 
purpose of fund; establishing procedures of 
expenditures of monies accruing to the credit of the 
fund; repealing 11 O.S. 20 21, Section 17-108, which 
relates to municipal trust exemptions; providing for   
 
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noncodification; providing for codification; 
providing an effective date; and declaring an 
emergency. 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PE OPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law not to be 
codified in the Oklahoma Stat utes reads as follows: 
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Municipal Audit 
Reform Act of 2022". 
SECTION 2.     AMENDATORY     11 O.S. 20 21, Section 17-105, is 
amended to read as follows: 
Section 17-105.  A.  The governing bod y of each municipality 
with an income of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) Fifty 
Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) or more to its general fund in total 
revenue to all funds including component units of which the 
municipality is a be neficiary, during a fiscal year shall cause to 
be prepared, by an ind ependent licensed public accountant or a 
certified public accountant, an annual financial statement audit to 
be conducted in accordance with auditing standards generally 
accepted in the United States of Amer ica and “Government Auditing 
Standards” as issued by the Comptroller General of the United 
States.  Such audit shall be ordered within thirty (30) days of the 
close of each fiscal year.  Copies shall be filed with the State 
Auditor and Inspector within six (6) months after the close of the 
fiscal year in accordance with the provisions of Sections 3022 and   
 
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3023 of this act Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes and with the 
governing body of the municipality. 
B.  The governing body of each muni cipality with an income of 
Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000. 00) Fifty Thousand Dollars 
($50,000.00) or more to its general fund during a fiscal year in 
total revenue to all funds including component units of which the 
municipality is a beneficiary, and with a population of less than 
two thousand five hundred (2,50 0) as of the most recent Federal 
Decennial Census, and for whom an annual financial statement audit 
is not required by another law, regulation or contract, shall cause 
to be prepared, by an i ndependent licensed public accountant or a 
certified public accou ntant, an annual a biennial financial 
statement audit in accordance with auditing standards generally 
accepted in the United States and Government Auditing Standards as 
issued by the Comptrol ler General of the U nited States, or an 
agreed-upon-procedures engagement over certain financial information 
and compliance requirements to be performed in accordance with the 
applicable attestation standards of The American Institute of 
Certified Public Accountants.  The spe cific procedures to be 
performed are as follows f or the fiscal year: 
1.  Prepare a schedule of changes in fund balances for each fund 
and determine compliance wit h the statutory prohibition of creating 
fund balance deficits;   
 
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2.  Prepare a budget and actual financial schedule for the 
General Fund and any other significant funds listing separately each 
federal fund and determine compliance with the legal level of 
appropriations by comparing expenditures and encumbrances to 
authorized appropriations; 
3.  Agree material bank account balances to bank statement s, and 
trace significant reconciling items to subsequent clearance; 
4.  Compare uninsured deposits to fair value of pledged 
collateral; 
5.  Compare use of material -restricted revenues and resources to 
their restrictions; 
6.  Determine compliance with requi rements for separate funds; 
and 
7.  Determine compliance with reserve account and debt service 
coverage requirements of bond indentures.  Each biennial audit sha ll 
cover the two (2) preceding years. 
The governing body of each municipality may alternatively 
request a biennial agreed-upon-procedures engagement to be 
prescribed by the State Auditor and Inspector, developed in 
collaboration with a r epresentative from a statewide organization 
that has represented municipal governments for at least fifty (50) 
years, a representative from an organization that advises or trains 
municipal clerks and treasurers, and a certified public accountan t.    
 
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Each biennial agreed -upon-procedures engagement shall cover the two 
(2) preceding years. 
For engagements performed for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
2023, the prescribed procedures developed under the terms of this 
subsection will be utilized on a on e-year basis ending June 30, 
2024.  The procedures shall then be submitted to the Legislature for 
ratification.  If the rules are not ratified by the Legislature on 
or before December 31, 2023, the Municipal Audit Reform Act of 2022 
shall sunset and be repealed as a matter of law. Agreed-upon 
procedures required under this act sha ll be performed in accordance 
with the applicable attestation standards of The American Institute 
of Certified Public Accountants. 
Such The audit or agreed-upon-procedures engagement shall be 
ordered within thirty (30) days o f the close of each the fiscal year 
that the audit is due .  Copies shall be filed with the State Auditor 
and Inspector within six (6) nine (9) months after the close of the 
fiscal year in accordance with the provisions of Sections 3022 and 
3023 paragraph 2 of subsection A of Section 212 A of Title 68 74 of 
the Oklahoma Statutes and with the governing body of the 
municipality., with the deadline to order and file the audit or 
agreed-upon procedures eligible for extension by the State Auditor 
for special circumstances or emergencies. 
C.  The municipal income requirements in su bsections A and B of 
this section shall not include any grant monies provided to a   
 
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municipality from any federal, state, or other gover nmental entity.  
The municipal income requirements shall not include income of any 
public trust established under Section s 176 through 180.4 of Title 
60 of the Oklahoma Statutes with a municipality as the be neficiary 
of the trust; provided, income from trusts established principally 
for the purpose of operating electric, water, wastewater , and 
sanitation utilities shall be i ncluded for purposes of the municipal 
income requirements. 
SECTION 3.     AMENDATORY     11 O.S. 20 21, Section 17-107, is 
amended to read as follows: 
Section 17-107.  If a municipality does not file a copy of its 
audit or agreed-upon-procedures report as provided in Section 17-105 
of this title, the State Auditor and Inspector shall notify the 
Oklahoma Tax Commission which shall withhold from the municipality 
its monthly allocations of gasoline taxes un til notified by the 
Office of the State Auditor and Inspector that the audit report is 
has been filed.  If a report is not filed within two (2) years after 
the close of the fisc al year in the case of an annual audit, or the 
second fiscal year of a biennial audit period, the funds being 
withheld shall be remitted by the Oklahoma Tax Commission to the 
county in which the incorporated city or town is located and 
deposited to the cou nty highway fund of that county to be used as 
otherwise provided by law Special Investigative Unit Auditing 
Revolving Fund creat ed pursuant to Section 4 of this act.   
 
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SECTION 4.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 17-107A of Title 11, unless 
there is created a duplica tion in numbering, reads as follows: 
There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund 
for the State Auditor and Inspector to be designated the “Special 
Investigative Unit Auditing Revolving Fund ”.  The fund shall be a 
continuing fund, not sub ject to fiscal year limitations, and shall 
consist of all monies received by the State Auditor and Inspector 
from funds withheld from a municipality ’s allocations of gasoline 
taxes as provided in Section 17-107 of Title 11 of the Oklahoma 
Statutes and all monies received from legislative appropriations for 
the purpose of conducting investigative municipal audits.  All 
monies accruing to the credit of such fund are hereby appropriated 
and may be budgeted and expended by the State Auditor an d Inspector 
for the purpose of offsetting expenses incurred from sp ecial 
investigative audit activities relating to municipal government.  
Expenditures from the fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the 
State Treasurer against claims filed as prescri bed by law with the 
Director of the Office of Management and Enterpr ise Services for 
approval and payment. 
SECTION 5.     REPEALER     11 O.S. 20 21, Section 17-108, is 
hereby repealed. 
SECTION 6.  This act shall become effec tive July 1, 2022.   
 
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SECTION 7.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation 
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby 
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and 
be in full force from and a fter its passage and approval. 
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON RUL ES 
April 13, 2022 - DO PASS AS AMENDED