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Bill to give unique web links to campaign reports aims to improve public access
Summary
Representative Lucas Schubert proposed HB 383 to require the Commissioner of Political Practices’ SIRS system to expose unique, shareable URLs for individual reports and search results; the commissioner’s staff said the system is old but willing to work on changes and the fiscal impact is under review.
Representative Lucas Schubert opened the House State Administration hearing on House Bill 383, asking the committee to require unique, shareable URLs for each report, candidate profile or search result in the Commissioner of Political Practices’ electronic reporting system (SIRS). Schubert said the current system returns the same top-level URL for different searches, preventing direct linking to a particular finance report.
Schubert showed examples in his handout comparing Montana’s…
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