trustees' sales
(NOW: auditor general;
powers; evaluations; reviews)
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Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance |
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Committee on Judiciary |
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HB 2347 as introduced makes substantive changes to trustee and foreclosure law, including changes to delegation of trustee duties, notice of substitution of trustee, notice of a trustee’s sale, cost of providing detailed lien information, rules of sale and post-sale and costs for reinstatement. A strike-everything amendment is proposed that repeals some of the Auditor General’s statutory duties.
HB 2347 was amended in the Judiciary Committee with the strike-everything amendment that repeals some of the Auditor General’s statutory duties. The Judiciary Committee strike-everything amendment was adopted in the Committee of the Whole.
Arizona Revised Statutes §41-1279.03 established the Office of the Auditor General to be an independent source of impartial information concerning state and local governmental entities and to provide specific recommendations to improve the operations of those entities. To fulfill its statutory duties, the Office must:
· Ascertain whether public entities are making wise use of their resources—public money, personnel, property, equipment, and space.
· Determine whether public entities are complying with applicable laws, regulations, and governmental accounting and financial and reporting standards.
· Define standards and establish procedures for accounting and budgeting, as the Legislature requires.
· Provide technical assistance to state and local governmental entities.
The Joint Legislative Audit Committee, which oversees all audit functions of the Arizona Legislature, provides direction for the Auditor General’s Office. Subject to approval by a majority vote of both legislative houses, the Committee also appoints the Auditor General for a five-year renewable term.
· Changes the period for the Auditor General to conduct a performance audit of a transportation excise tax from every three years to every five years.
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Removes the requirement that the Auditor General conduct evaluations of the healthy families program,
the family group decision making program and the family literacy program.
· Removes the requirement that the Auditor General submit a programmatic evaluation of the health start program to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President of the Senate and the Governor every fifth year and instead requires one evaluation to be submitted by December 31, 2002.
· Eliminates the Auditor General’s ability to access the Department of Economic Security’s information.
· Repeals two sections of session law dealing with the Auditor General’s performance audit of the Solar Energy Program and the requirements for ultrasound review reports.
· Changes the evaluation date of review of ultrasound results to December 31, 2005 from December 31, 2002.
· Makes technical and conforming changes.
The strike-everything amendment was adopted in the Judiciary Committee.
The Judiciary Committee strike-everything amendment was adopted in the Committee of the Whole.
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45th Legislature
Second Regular Session 2 April
6, 2002
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