Bill Text: HI HCR195 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Financial Audit; State Funds; Counties

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-04-22 - Report adopted, referred to WAM. [HCR195 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2015-HCR195-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	195
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting the auditor to conduct a financial audit of each county to examine the use of and needs for state funds.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the Legislature firmly believes in government transparency; and

 

     WHEREAS, the use of state funds should be a matter of public record to ensure that state funds are used appropriately and responsibly; and

 

     WHEREAS, fiscal accountability and transparency require an accounting of the amount of funds each county receives from the State and the use of such funds; and

 

     WHEREAS, a financial audit of each county will help identify the financial assistance needs of the counties; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2015, the Senate concurring, that the Auditor is requested to conduct a financial audit of each county to examine the use of and needs for the state funds that each county receives; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Auditor is requested to include the following information in the audits:

 

     (1)  The amount of funds each county received in the prior fiscal year;

 

     (2)  The total amount of state funds that each county actually spent and financial details of any unused funds in the prior fiscal year; and

     (3)  The financial details of how each county spent the state funds received in the prior fiscal year; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Auditor is requested to report its findings to the Legislature no later than 20 days before the convening of the Regular Session of 2016; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Acting Auditor and the Mayor of Hawaii County, Mayor of Maui County, Mayor of Kauai County, and the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Financial Audit; State Funds; Counties