Financial audit and reporting requirements

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(a) The Bar Foundation shall provide the Council with:

(1) An annual financial audit of its activities prepared by a certified public accountant licensed in the District of Columbia and carried out in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards; provided, that the audit may be conducted as part of the Bar Foundation's annual audit;

(2) Biannual reporting that includes the following information:

(A) The gender, race, ethnicity, and age of eligible individuals served;

(B) The election ward of residence of eligible individuals served;

(C) The incomes of eligible individuals served;

(D) Legal services provided to eligible individuals; and

(E) A list of designated legal services providers and the amount of grant funding provided to each, including how the grant funding is used by each designated legal services provider; and

(3) Annual programmatic reporting that includes:

(A) An evaluation of the performance of each designated legal services provider;

(B) The legal outcomes for each eligible individual or group served;

(C) An evaluation of implementation challenges and recommendations for future improvements; and

(D) An assessment of unmet legal needs in the provision of legal services for covered proceedings.

(Dec. 13, 2017, D.C. Law 22-33, § 3055, 64 DCR 7652.)

Emergency Legislation

For temporary (90-day) creation of this section, see § 3055 of the Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Support Congressional Review Emergency Act of 2017, effective October 24, 2017 (D.C. Act 22-167; 64 DCR 10802).

For temporary (90-day) creation of this section, see § 3055 of the Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2017, effective July 20, 2017 (D.C. Act 22-104; 64 DCR 7032).


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