ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor

Ch. 242

(2)     federal, State, or local officials, or their auditors, who provide
evidence to the Legislative Auditor that they are performing investigations, studies,
or audits related to that same audit or review and who provide justification for the
specific information requested; or

(3)     the Joint Audit Committee, if necessary to assist the Committee in
reviewing a report issued by the Legislative Auditor.

(c) [If] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN § 2-1225 OF THIS SUBTITLE, IF information
that an employee obtains during an audit or review also is confidential under another
law, the employee or the Legislative Auditor may not include in a report or otherwise
use the information in any manner that discloses the identity of any person who is the
subject of the confidential information.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 2004.

Approved May 11, 2004.

CHAPTER 242
(House Bill 124)

AN ACT concerning

Attorney General - Prosecution of Criminal Offenses Reported by the Office

of Legislative Audits

FOR the purpose of repealing a requirement that the Legislative Auditor report
certain alleged violations of law by a unit of State government or other body that
is audited or reviewed by the Office of the Legislative Auditor under certain
circumstances; repealing a requirement that the Attorney General respond to
certain persons regarding certain actions taken by the Attorney General based
on a certain report by the Legislative Auditor a certain alleged default by an
officer or employee who is subject to audit or review to the Attorney General and
a certain State's Attorney; authorizing requiring the Legislative Auditor to
report to the Attorney General and the State's Attorney any alleged criminal
violation by a person discovered during the course of an audit or review audit,
review, or investigation; requiring the Attorney General and the State's Attorney
to keep a certain report of an alleged criminal violation confidential under
certain circumstances; authorizing the Attorney General to investigate and
prosecute any alleged criminal violation reported by the Legislative Auditor
under certain circumstances; authorizing the Attorney General to exercise all
the powers and duties of a State's Attorney to investigate and prosecute certain
alleged criminal violations under certain circumstances; creating an exception to
certain confidentiality requirements of the Legislative Auditor under certain
circumstances; and generally relating to the authority of the Attorney General
to investigate and prosecute certain alleged criminal violations reported by the
Legislative Auditor under certain circumstances.

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