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Rep. Mark Leland flags law forcing 60‑day wait for ethics panel consultation, says it 'impinges' on legislature's authority
Summary
Representative Mark Leland, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, told the Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee on Jan. 23 that a provision in a recently enacted ethics law creates a 60‑day consultation requirement that he says limits the legislature’s constitutional authority to oversee its members.
Representative Mark Leland, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, told the Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee on Jan. 23 that a provision in a recently enacted ethics law creates a 60‑day consultation requirement that he says limits the legislature’s constitutional authority to oversee its members.
Leland said the law requires the state ethics commissioner to refer complaints involving legislators to the appropriate legislative ethics panel and that the panel must wait 60 days for the commissioner’s recommendation. “Having that constraint, that we have to wait 60 days, is problematic. It impinges on our constitutional authority,” Leland said.
The provision in question takes…
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