HOUSE BILL NO. 298                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
     "An Act relating to confidentiality of performance                                                                         
     review records and reports of the legislature audit                                                                        
     division."                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
10:25:53 AM                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
SHARON   KELLY,   STAFF,   REPRESENTATIVE    MIKE   CHENAULT,                                                                   
explained   HB  298.   She   explained   that  the   previous                                                                   
legislature  had enacted  a law  to set up  an effective  and                                                                   
regular   system  of   conducting   performance  reviews   of                                                                   
departments.   During  the  course   of  the  first   review,                                                                   
Legislative  Audit  discovered  a slight  difference  between                                                                   
the confidentiality  requirements for performance  review and                                                                   
audits.  This  technical  amendment  makes  the  reviews  and                                                                   
audits the same  and protects both Legislative  Audit and the                                                                   
department during the course of the reviews.                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Vice-Chair Fairclough  MOVED to ADOPT the  proposed committee                                                                   
substitute  for  SCS  HB 298  (FIN)  Work  Draft  28-LS1380\U                                                                   
(Gardner,  3/6/14).  There  being  NO OBJECTION,  it  was  so                                                                   
ordered.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
KRIS CURTIS,  AUDITOR, LEGISLATIVE  BUDGET AND AUDIT,  (LB&A)                                                                   
explained that  the bill made  a technical change  related to                                                                   
the   performance  review   records.  It   would  align   the                                                                   
statutory   language  to  ensure   that  performance   review                                                                   
records  were  treated  in  the  same  manner  as  the  audit                                                                   
records.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Meyer CLOSED public testimony.                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
Vice-Chair Fairclough  MOVED to REPORT  SCS HB 298  (FIN) out                                                                   
of  committee   with  individual   recommendations   and  the                                                                   
accompanying fiscal  note. There  being NO OBJECTION,  it was                                                                   
so ordered.                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
SCS HB  298 (FIN) was  REPORTED out  of committee with  a "do                                                                   
pass"  recommendation  and  with  previously  published  zero                                                                   
fiscal note: FN1: LEG.