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Senate votes down bill that would remove ethics exemption for golf professionals
Summary
Senators debated and ultimately defeated HB 292, which would have removed a long-standing ethics exemption for municipal/county golf professionals; floor debate emphasized potential harm to rural course operations and concerns about fairness vs. disclosure requirements.
House Bill 292, which would have reversed a decades-old exemption that limited application of the Public Employees Ethics Act to municipal or county-employed golf professionals, failed on the Senate floor Feb. 21 after extended debate about rural impacts and disclosure requirements.
Sponsor Rep. Holdaway (carried in the Senate by Sen. Spencer) said the bill would eliminate a special…
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