GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 129*

Short Title:  DAPP Performance Audit.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senator Odom.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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February 17, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A PERFORMANCE AUDIT OF THE DIVISION OF ADULT PROBATION AND PAROLE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The State Auditor shall select an independent firm recognized in performance auditing to conduct an independent performance audit of the Division of Adult Probation and Parole in the Department of Correction. The State Auditor shall report the results of this audit to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees, the Chairmen of the House Appropriations Subcommittees on Justice and Public Safety, the Chairmen of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Justice and Public Safety, the Chairmen of the Joint Legislative Corrections Oversight Committee, and the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations on or before March 1, 1998.
The performance audit of the Division of Adult Probation and Parole shall review the efficiency and effectiveness of major management policies, practices, and functions, including the following areas:
(1)	Organization and structure.
(2)	Effect of organizational relationships with other community correction programs.
(3)	Current staffing patterns and workload.
(4)	Personnel practices.
(5)	General effectiveness of probation and parole.
Section 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the State Auditor the sum of six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) for the 1997-98 fiscal year to contract for the performance audit required by this act.
Section 3.  This act is effective July 1, 1997.