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Committee concurs on bill to codify Montana transparency website, strips proposed fee
Summary
The House State Administration Committee concurred in Senate Bill 564 with an amendment removing a proposed fee, directing codification of the state's transparency website to prevent its removal by future administrations.
The House State Administration Committee on [date not specified] voted to concur in Senate Bill 564, which would place the state’s transparency website into law, after adopting an amendment that removes a proposed user fee.
Sen. Ken Bognor, sponsor, told the committee he discovered the publicly accessible transparency checkbook online and learned the site has been maintained by the Department of Administration since about 2013 but exists only by policy, not statute. "It's very…
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