There is hereby created the Office of Accountability. The State Board of Education is hereby directed to support the Office of Accountability from the budget of the State Board of Education. The state Board of Education shall include the Office of Accountability in its budget work program to be submitted each fiscal year for the succeeding fiscal year to the Office of State Finance. Each year the Education Oversight Board shall submit a program budget for the Office of Accountability to the State Board of Education. Any amendments to the Office of Accountability program budget must first be approved by the Education Oversight Board. The Office of Accountability, its personnel, budget, and expenditure of funds shall be solely under the direction of the Education Oversight Board.

Laws 1989, 1st Extr. Sess., HB 1017, c. 2, § 42, emerg. eff. April 25, 1990; Amended by Laws 1997, SB 416, c. 191, § 2, emerg. eff. July 1, 1997 (superseded document available).