{"id":13265,"date":"2010-02-17T12:28:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=13265"},"modified":"2010-02-17T12:28:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:28:07","slug":"house-oks-withholding-funding-for-agencies-that-don%e2%80%99t-submit-audits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/house-oks-withholding-funding-for-agencies-that-don%e2%80%99t-submit-audits\/","title":{"rendered":"House OKs withholding funding for agencies that don\u2019t submit audits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12869\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12869\" title=\"Roundhouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Roundhouse1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Roundhouse in Santa Fe (Photo by Peter St. Cyr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The House easily approved a bill today that would punish government agencies that don\u2019t submit timely audits by temporarily withholding some of their funding.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now heads to the Senate, with less than 24 hours until the session ends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?chamber=H&amp;legtype=B&amp;legno=%20228&amp;year=10\">House Bill 228<\/a>, sponsored by Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HVARE\">Luciano \u201cLucky\u201d Varela<\/a>, D-Santa Fe, passed on a vote of 60-5. The legislation would require that the state Department of Finance and Administration temporarily withhold funding to a state agency that has failed to submit required audits to the state auditor.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was sought by State Auditor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saonm.org\/about-hector-balderas\">Hector Balderas<\/a>, who in September released a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/09\/balderas-calls-out-agencies-over-late-audits\/\">dozens of state agencies<\/a> that hadn\u2019t submitted annual and compliance audits as required by law. Even after doing that, many of the agencies ignored Balderas\u2019 call to come into compliance with the law.<\/p>\n<p>Under current law, Balderas has no recourse in that situation. This bill would change that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House easily approved a bill today that would punish government agencies that don\u2019t submit timely audits by temporarily withholding some of their funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-13265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}