46-1109. Audits on request of governor or legislators; direction of audit by committee; reimbursement of mileage expense of legislator requesting audit at presentation of report. (a) In addition to other additional audits which the legislative post audit committee may direct, such committee may direct the audit of any state agency or agencies when so requested in writing by the governor or any member or committee of the legislature. Any such written request shall specify the desired object of the audit requested and the reasons therefor. In directing the post auditor to make any such requested additional audit of a state agency or agencies, the legislative post audit committee may modify the object and direct the details of the audit to be performed.
(b) In accordance with this subsection, the legislative post audit committee may reimburse travel mileage expense incurred by a member of the legislature to attend a meeting of the legislative post audit committee for the presentation of the report of a performance audit that was requested by such member of the legislature and performed at the direction of the legislative post audit committee. The reimbursement for such travel mileage expense shall be for each mile actually traveled by the usual route in going to and returning from the meeting of the legislative post audit committee at the rate fixed under K.S.A. 75-3203a, and amendments thereto, and shall be subject to any restrictions or limitations prescribed by rules adopted by the legislative post audit committee. In the case of a performance audit that was requested by any standing, special, select or joint committee of the legislature, the legislative post audit committee may reimburse travel mileage expense incurred by not more than two members of such committee and not more than one member of any political party. No travel mileage expense shall be reimbursed under this subsection for attendance at a legislative post audit committee meeting held during the time that the legislature is in session, unless the legislature has adjourned for a period of more than two days.
History: L. 1971, ch. 185, § 9; L. 2000, ch. 144, § 1; May 25.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Article 11 - Legislative Post Audit
46-1102 Post auditor; appointment, removal, qualifications, compensation and expenses.
46-1104 Expenses and compensation of committee members; approval of vouchers and payrolls.
46-1108 Performance audits; additional fiscal audits; purposes of audits.
46-1113 Audits under 46-1114 required when directed by post audit committee.
46-1116 Crime of failure to make records available for post audit defined and classified.
46-1117 Venue for violations of 46-1116.
46-1119 Citation and construction of legislative post audit act.
46-1120a Contract audit committee successor of abolished federal audit committee.
46-1123 Procurement of firm or firms to perform an audit; procedure.
46-1125 Selection of firm or firms by contract audit committee; considerations.
46-1126 Contracts for audits; professional liability insurance; responsibilities of selected firm.
46-1128 Confidentiality of audit reports, when; exceptions.
46-1129 Confidentiality of responses to audit surveys; authorized use of information.
46-1135 Information technology audits.
46-1136 Performance audit of the Kansas public employees retirement system.