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Ethics committee advances bill to extend complaint window, standardize disclosures and redact official addresses
Summary
The Georgia Senate Ethics Committee advanced Senate Bill 199, a package of changes that would expand the pre‑election complaint blackout to 60 days, standardize several reporting deadlines and allow public‑form redaction of officials’ home addresses.
The Georgia Senate Ethics Committee on an undisclosed date advanced Senate Bill 199, a package of changes to ethics reporting and complaint procedures that its sponsor and ethics officials said is intended to simplify deadlines and reduce so‑called "weaponized" filings close to elections.
The bill would increase the current 30‑day limit for filing new ethics complaints before an election to 60 days, a change supporters said would discourage late complaints that are intended for political impact rather than enforcement. It would also move several filing deadlines to consistent schedules: campaign committee disclosures and certain PAC reports would shift to quarterly filings; personal financial disclosures for covered officials would be reconciled to an annual April 1 date; and reporting by…
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