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Utah House passes amended lobbyist-disclosure bill after hours of debate
Summary
The Utah House approved the fourth substitute to House Bill 94 requiring expanded disclosure of lobbyist expenditures and benefits for public officials, adopting several amendments including higher reporting triggers and a clarification to the bribery statute; the bill passed the House 67–4 and will head to the Senate.
The Utah House of Representatives passed the fourth substitute to House Bill 94, a lobbyist-disclosure measure that requires persons who confer certain benefits on state officials to report expenditures and travel, on a 67–4 recorded vote. Representative Garn, the bill sponsor, said the measure "is not to impugn, implicate, embarrass, target any person or group," but to provide "full disclosure of the lobbying expenditures and activities" to preserve public trust.
Supporters framed the bill as an accountability measure. Representative Birmingham warned of incremental erosion of safeguards, calling the problem "the tyranny of tiny steps," and urged rules that…
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