Auditor-backed bill to cut duplicate reporting advances through committee hearing

Senator Tony Sorrentino opened the committee hearing on LB749, a cleanup bill requested by State Auditor Mike Foley that would remove statutory duplication requiring the auditor's office to separately provide bond and nonbond tax-request amounts to the Department of Revenue when those figures already arrive through certificate-of-taxes-levied (CTO) reporting. "This bill would eliminate the need for a duplication of efforts from the auditor's office," Sorrentino said.

Craig Kubicek, deputy state auditor, testified the bill is an efficiency improvement with no fiscal impact and that the Department of Revenue already receives the data. Committee members asked no substantive follow-ups and the hearing concluded with no opponents or neutral testifiers presenting.

The committee did not take a vote during the hearing.