Rules Committee adopts amendments, continues behested-payments ordinance for further drafting

The Rules Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Monday considered an ordinance to expand the campaign and government conduct code’s definition of 'interested parties' and to prohibit certain soliciting of behested payments by elected officials and designated employees, adopted several amendments and voted to continue the item one week for further drafting.

Chair Aaron Peskin, who introduced the amendments and moved to continue the matter, said the changes respond to Comptroller Rosenfield’s public-integrity recommendations following the Mohamed Nuru–related scandals. Peskin told colleagues he would codify an exemption for written and oral public comment so that someone speaking for or against legislation during public comment would not automatically become an "interested party."…