Amends existing law to change the requirement for an annual financial audit to a periodic management review.

This legislation changes the financial audit requirements of the Soil and Water Conservation Commission fromanannualindependentfinancialaudittoaperiodicmanagementreview. Thelegislativeauditorrecently completed the FY 2011 and FY 2012 financial audits for the commission. At the conclusion, the legislative auditor recommended that, retroactive to FY 2013, the commission be treated like other state agencies, and undergo a periodic management review instead.