Assemblyman Yoon Young-deok Proposes Bill for 'Unaddressed Issues Report' After National Assembly Settlement Review

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] A bill to strengthen the follow-up report after the settlement audit to ensure thorough management of the national budget has been proposed.

On the 7th, Representative Yoon Youngdeok (The Democratic Party of Korea·Gwangju Dongnam-gap) announced that he has taken the lead in proposing the "Partial Amendment to the National Assembly Act," which requires periodic reporting on unaddressed matters following the National Assembly's settlement audit.

Under the current law, if there are illegal or improper matters found in the National Assembly's settlement audit results, the relevant institution is required to correct them and report the results back to the National Assembly.

Accordingly, the government submits an initial "Action Result Report" to the National Assembly and subsequently re-examines any incomplete actions to submit a "Follow-up Action Result Report" to the National Assembly.

However, after submitting the "Follow-up Action Result Report," no separate report on the final action results is made.

According to data from the National Assembly Budget Office titled "Government Action Results on National Assembly Settlement Correction Requests," the rate of incomplete actions has increased to 12.9% for the 2017 fiscal year and 13.6% for the 2018 fiscal year, with an average incomplete action rate of 12.12% over the past five years.

Representative Yoon stated, "The current law only stipulates the obligation to report on the results of corrective actions but does not specify the timing and method in detail. This has caused issues such as the same correction requests being repeated annually in the National Assembly settlement audit."

This amendment includes provisions requiring reports to the National Assembly every six months within a one-year period on the status and final results of unaddressed correction requests even after the follow-up action result report.

Representative Yoon said, "This amendment is a bill to enhance the effectiveness of the settlement audit by strengthening the implementation of the National Assembly's correction requests. If this bill passes, it will reduce the incomplete action rate of over 10% in settlement correction requests."

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