Summary of Report 17-031

Table 1 shows the recommendations on which auditors followed up and their implementation status. Those recommendations were directed to the Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, Employees Retirement System, Department of Public Safety, Texas Lottery Commission, Department of Transportation, General Land Office, Department of Agriculture, and the Texas Board of Nursing. Please note that the recommendations were grouped into the chapter or subchapter level as presented in the original audit reports. As a result, for Table 1, some recommendations have multiple parts. For purposes of this report, auditors assigned letters to recommendations with multiple parts in Table 1.

Auditors verified that the recommendations in 9 of those 10 report chapters were fully implemented. However, auditors determined that a recommendation in one report chapter tested was substantially implemented. The recommendation determined to be substantially implemented was addressed to the Employees Retirement System.

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Table 2 shows a summary of the self-reported implementation status for the recommendations addressed to state agencies and higher education institutions in performance audit reports that the State Auditor’s Office released from September 1, 2015, through June 30, 2016. The information below reflects the implementation status as reported to the State Auditor’s Office by state agencies and higher education institutions on or before December 30, 2016. The audited entities self-reported that they had fully implemented the recommendations made in 34 chapters1 and substantially implemented the recommendations in 10 chapters. Implementation of the recommendations in 17 chapters was reported as incomplete or ongoing.

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