(a) The executive commissioner shall coordinate with each agency or department of the state that contracts with a local intellectual and developmental disability authority to prescribe procedures for a coordinated program audit of the authority. The procedures must be:

1. (1) consistent with the requirements for the receipt of federal funding by the authority; and
2. (2) based on risk assessment.

(b) A program audit must evaluate:

1. (1) the extent to which a local intellectual and developmental disability authority is achieving the results or benefits established by an agency or department of the state or by the legislature;
2. (2) the effectiveness of the authority's organization, program, activities, or functions; and
3. (3) the authority's compliance with law.

(e) This section does not prohibit an agency, department, or other entity providing funding to a local intellectual and developmental disability authority from investigating a complaint against the authority or performing additional contract monitoring of the authority.

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.