Amend Amendment Number 31A, bearing document number 3579R067 EB LKG, as and if amended, by adding an appropriately numbered SECTION to read:
/ SECTION ___. Chapter 6, Title 1 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 1-6-120.(A) In 2016, and every other year thereafter, the Office of Inspector General shall procure an independent audit of the contracting function of the Department of Transportation. The audit must focus on the efficiency and economy of contracts entered into by the Department of Transportation.
(B) The audit must comply with recognized governmental auditing standards. The Department of Transportation and any entity contracting with the department must fully cooperate with the independent auditor in the discharge of his duties and responsibilities and must timely produce all requested information, including, but not limited to books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records necessary in connection with an independent audit. All final audit reports must be submitted to the Department of Transportation Commission, the Secretary of Transportation, the Joint Transportation Review Committee, the chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, the chairman of the House of Representatives Education and Public Works Committee, the chairman of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, and the Governor before being made public.
(C) Each even-numbered year, in the annual general appropriations act, the General Assembly shall appropriate sufficient funds to the Inspector General to pay for the expenses associated with the independent audit." /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.