CODE OF VIRGINIA

REPORTS (§ 2.2-313)

A. The State Inspector General shall prepare an annual report to the Governor
and the General Assembly summarizing the activities of the Office. Such report
shall include, but need not be limited to: (i) a description of any significant
problems, abuses, and deficiencies related to the management or operation of
state agencies or nonstate agencies during the reporting period; (ii) a
description of the recommendations for any corrective actions made by the Office
during the reporting period with respect to significant problems, abuses, or
deficiencies identified; (iii) a summary of matters referred to the attorneys
for the Commonwealth and law-enforcement agencies and actions taken on them
during the reporting period; (iv) information concerning the numbers of
complaints received and types of investigations completed by the Office during
the reporting period; (v) the development and maintenance of internal audit
programs in state agencies and nonstate agencies; and (vi) the results of any
state agency performance reviews, including a summary of any findings or
recommendations for improving the efficiency of state agencies. The annual
report shall cover the period July 1 until June 30 of the immediately preceding
fiscal year. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, annual reports shall be
transmitted directly to the Governor and the General Assembly.

B. The State Inspector General shall notify the Governor’s chief of staff,
the Speaker, Majority Leader, and Minority Leader of the House of Delegates, and
the President pro tempore, Majority Leader, and Minority Leader of the Senate of
problems, abuses, or deficiencies relating to the management or operation of a
state agency or nonstate agency.

C. The State Inspector General shall keep the appropriate Secretaries advised of
the Office’s activities as they relate to each respective Secretary on at
least a quarterly basis, and of any significant problems, abuses, or
deficiencies relating to the management or operation of a state agency within
each such Secretary’s area of responsibility. However, when the State
Inspector General becomes aware of significant problems, abuses, or deficiencies
relating to the management or operation of a Secretary’s office, the State
Inspector General shall report the same immediately to the Governor’s
chief of staff.

D. The State Inspector General may conduct such additional investigations and
make such reports relating to the management and operation of state agencies as
are, in the judgment of the State Inspector General, necessary or desirable.

E. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the reports, information, or
documents required by or under this section shall be transmitted directly to the
Governor’s chief of staff and the General Assembly by the State Inspector
General.

F. Records that are confidential under federal or state law shall be maintained
as confidential by the State Inspector General and shall not be further
disclosed, except as required by law.

HISTORY: 2011, cc. 798, 871; 2013, cc. 717, 723.