Changes to Existing Law

The Government Operations and Audit Committee may examine all records and vouchers, summon witnesses and obtain documents by request or by issuing a subpoena, and thoroughly examine all expenditures and the general management of each department of state government. The Government Operations and Audit Committee committee may issue a subpoena for the person, documents, or both and an individual, a document, or both. The committee may use the procedure provided in chapter 21-34 to enforce its subpoena when the subject of the subpoena refuses to comply with the command to appear and testify before the committee or produce documents. However, no subpoena may be issued until the decision to issue a subpoena by the Government Operations and Audit Committee has been ratified by the Executive Board of the Legislative Research Council. 15