CHAPTER 5. The State Leadership Accountability Act

Heading of Chapter 5 amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 25, Sec. 12.

§§ 13400–13407 · 8 sections

• § 13400 This act shall be known and may be cited as the State Leadership Accountability Act.
• § 13401 (a) The Legislature finds all of the following: (1) Active oversight processes, including regular and ongoing monitoring processes, for the prevention and…
• § 13402 Agency heads are responsible for the establishment and maintenance of a system or systems of internal control, and effective and objective ongoing monitoring…
• § 13403 (a) As used in this chapter, “internal control” means a process, including a continuous built-in component of operations, effected by a state agency’s…
• § 13404 As used in this chapter: (a) “Agency head” means the individual responsible for the overall operations of a state agency. (b) “State agency” means every entity…
• § 13405 (a) To ensure that the requirements of this chapter are fully complied with, each agency head that the Department of Finance determines is covered by this…
• § 13406 (a) The head of the internal audit staff of a state agency, as specified by the Director of Finance, or, in the event there is no internal audit function, a…
• § 13407 Because sound internal controls and the regular and ongoing monitoring of those internal controls significantly inhibits waste of resources and thereby creates…