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Conference committee debates compromise to hide small expenditures from public but allow Secretary of State review
Summary
Legislators on the conference committee for bill 1377 debated a compromise that would keep itemized expenditure records in the Secretary of State's system but make individual expenditures under $250 exempt from public view while showing only category totals to the public; a motion to adopt the compromise was introduced and withdrawn.
A House-Senate conference committee meeting on bill 1377 debated whether campaign expenditures should be itemized publicly or reported only by category, with a House-backed compromise proposed to keep itemized records visible to the Secretary of State while showing only category totals to the public.
The compromise, described by Representative Vetter, would require candidates and committees to enter individual expenditures into the new reporting software but make the name, date and amount of expenditures under $250 exempt from public view; the public would see only the aggregated category, for example, "$2,000 in advertising." Representative Vetter said, "So they would see $2,000 in advertising."
The proposal reflected the House's stated concern about "weaponization" of fine-grained vendor-level reporting in small communities, while offering a mechanism for the Secretary of State to…
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