Requires employees of state departments and boards to report suspected fraud; requires state departments and boards to post an organizational chart on the entity’s website that includes the names of, and contact information for, the commissioner, deputy commissioner, assistant commissioner(s), and the head of each division or bureau within the agency;
requires the commissioner of the Department of Administration to provide leadership and direction to state agencies regarding the prevention of fraud, waste, and abuse in state grant programs; requires the Department of Administration, as part of its grantmaking policies for state agencies, to require agencies to, without exception: (1) conduct at least one in-person, unannounced monitoring visit before final payment of any grant over $50,000 and annual unannounced in-person monitoring visits for grants over $250,000; (2) conduct a financial reconciliation of each grant project expenditure prior to disbursement for grants over $50,000; and (3) withhold funds from any grantee that does not submit a required progress report provides that a state employee who knowingly violates one or more of these requirements is guilty of a misdemeanor crime; requires state employees to report violations of grantmaking laws or rules; provides that grant agreements between the state and grantees must require the grantee to post on its website a current organizational chart for the duration of the grant agreement; provides that grant agreements between the state and grantees must require the grantee to allow audits; requires state agencies, when performing the mandatory pre-award financial review of potential nonprofit or for-profit grantees, to confirm that the grantees internal controls, at a minimum, require the segregation of duties concerning the authorization, disbursement, and recording of expenditures; requires agencies to require additional information and provide additional oversight when the potential grantee has not previously received state or federal grants of similar amounts or for similar duties or has not demonstrated the ability to perform the duties on the required scale; requires agencies, when requiring additional information from potential nonprofit grantees, to request and examine certain information concerning employee compensation; require state grant agreements to include a clause providing that the state will immediately suspend the grant if the grantee is charged with a criminal offense relating to a state grant agreement.