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Committee approves bill to expand exception for bail bondsmen holding local office with limits
Summary
The House Governmental Affairs full committee approved Senate Bill 16 to expand an existing exception that allows bail bondsmen to serve on school boards so they may also hold seats as county commissioners and city council members in certain circumstances, with a restriction that they cannot issue bonds in the jurisdiction where they serve.
Senator Matt Brass presented Senate Bill 16 to the House Governmental Affairs full committee, saying the measure would add county commissioners and city council members to an existing exception that currently allows bail bondsmen to serve on school boards. "So current law does not allow for a bail bondsman to become an elected official with 1 exception, and that 1 exception is for school board," Sen. Matt Brass said, describing a local case in Heard County where a newly elected official who ran a bail bonds business was…
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