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House committee advances bills to bar nondisclosure agreements for legislators and their legislative staff
Summary
The House Committee on Government Operations adopted an H‑1 substitute and voted unanimously to report House Bills 4052 and 4053, which would prohibit lawmakers and their legislative staff from signing nondisclosure agreements in a legislative capacity.
The House Committee on Government Operations adopted an H‑1 substitute to House Bill 4052 and voted to report House Bills 4052 and 4053 with recommendation, advancing legislation that would bar lawmakers and their legislative staff from signing nondisclosure agreements in their legislative capacity.
The bills’ sponsors—Representative Cara and Representative Wegela—said the measure aims to increase transparency around deals involving state resources. “we have, what I believe is a very common sense bipartisan legislation before you here today. It simply says that we should not be signing non disclosure agreements in our legislative capacity,” Representative Cara said during testimony.
The committee’s action came after supporters, including Michael Lefebvre of the Mackinac Center, testified in favor of the bills. “These bills would…
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