Top Massachusetts House Democrats plan to change an internal rule to grant the State Auditor’s Office the sole authority to select an independent firm to conduct a review of the chamber’s finances, officials said in a statement Thursday.

The move comes after Massachusetts residents overwhelmingly approved a ballot question granting Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s office more authority to investigate the Legislature and as she reignites her efforts to probe both the House and Senate in the wake of Election Day.

House Speaker Ron Mariano said the financial audit will be automatically posted to the Legislature’s website once it is completed and will be conducted annually.

“While Question 1 has not yet gone into effect, this proposed rule change is the first step in the House’s effort to respect the will of the voters without violating the separation of powers clause that is foundational to the Massachusetts Constitution. We look forward to a broader rules discussion early next year,” Mariano said in a statement.

House officials said the internal rules change does not affect the ballot question, which takes effect 30 days after election results are certified.

In a post to social media, DiZoglio said if House members vote to “strip away” her office’s ability to conduct an audit, “you give yourselves the ability to control the scope of the audit, by an outside firm.”

“Since you’ll still control how much you pay for the audit, what you will allow their scope to be, and what you will allow them to examine or not examine — you’ll be giving yourself control over every aspect of the process which will be overseen by you, and not our office, exempting yourself from oversight — yet again,” she said.

While the internal rules change focuses only on the House’s financials, DiZoglio’s audit of the two chambers seeks to go further and tap into “high-risk areas” like state contracting and procurement procedures, the use of taxpayer-funded nondisclosure agreements, and legislative financials.

“We ask that all requested records and information be made available to use within 72 hours of the date of request,” DiZoglio wrote in a Friday letter to Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka.

Mariano and Spilka have said they are still weighing changes to the language of the voter-approved audit law and a spokesman for Mariano said the internal rules change is separate from those considerations.

This is a developing story…