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: Kentucky Law Blog2010 SESSION: Proposed bill to open ALL government expenses to public scruting - all three branches!
By Michael Stevens
If the AOC won't move toward transparency and financial accountability on its own, then it looks like the legislature will take up the cause. Here's a post at Bluegrass Politics Blog from the Herald Leader:
By Jack Brammer on State Government
FRANKFORT ? Two Republican lawmakers are backing a proposal for consideration in the upcoming legislative session to require each branch of government to divulge its expenses on a Web site. Sen. Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown, and Rep. Jim DeCesare, R-Rockfield, called their legislation ?the Transparency Act of 2010.? DeCesare said he had filed previous legislation that dealt only with the executive branch. His latest bill, he said, deals with the executive, judicial and legislative branches. Under their bill, the Web sites would have to provide by Jan. 1, 2011, information not considered confidential by state or federal law for each expenditure in their branch of government.
Full post as published by Kentucky Law Blog on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).
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