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Tennessee committee approves fee and funding changes for Bureau of Ethics technology upgrade
Summary
The State and Local Government Committee approved House Bill 6 53, which imposes a $150 annual registration fee on political campaign committees and directs funds from a lobbyist privilege tax to the Bureau of Ethics and Campaign Finance to support a technology replacement and related costs.
The State and Local Government Committee approved House Bill 6 53 on a voice vote after testimony from elections regulators and committee members.
House Bill 6 53, sponsored by Representative Hicks, would require political campaign committees registered with the registry of election finance to pay a $150 annual registration fee and direct 80% of the annual professional privilege tax paid by registered lobbyists to the Bureau of Ethics and Campaign Finance to help replace the bureau’s aging information technology platform.
The bill’s sponso…
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