2006 Kansas Code - 46-1129

      46-1129.   Confidentiality of responses to audit surveys; authorized use of information. (a) As used in this section:

      (1)   "Audit" means any financial-compliance audit, performance audit or any other audit or audit work conducted by the division of post audit or by a firm under the legislative post audit act;

      (2)   "survey" means any questionnaire or other survey instrument administered by the division of post audit or by a firm under the legislative post audit act for the purposes and in the course of an audit, regardless of form or characteristics; and

      (3)   any other words and phrases used in this section shall have the meanings respectively ascribed thereto by K.S.A. 46-1112 and amendments thereto.

      (b)   A response to any survey administered for the purposes and in the course of an audit approved by the legislative post audit committee shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed pursuant to the provisions of the open records act or under any other law except as required pursuant to the legislative post audit act. Nothing in this section shall limit the use of any information contained in responses to any survey by the division of post audit for the purposes of any audit or for any other purpose authorized or required under the legislative post audit act.

      History:   L. 2005, ch. 68, § 1; Apr. 14.