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Committee approves law to let ethics software account for campaign refunds and carryovers
STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE · March 28, 2019
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Summary
Lawmakers approved a bill to allow refunds and reimbursements to be recorded in the legislature's new ethics software so campaign carryover accounts can reflect reimbursements, restoring accounting that existed under the old paper system.
The committee approved House Bill 16-97 to direct the ethics system vendor to add functionality that lets officeholders record refunds and reimbursements in their campaign/carryover accounts.
Representative Steve Meeks, who presented the bill, said the new software lacks a way to record a negative-expense that…
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