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Senate Transparency and Ethics Committee holds first meeting; schedules hearings on annexation, solar and ethics bills
Summary
At its first session the Senate Transparency and Ethics Committee introduced members, assigned time-sensitive budgets for immediate review and heard staff summaries of bills including limits on unilateral annexation (SB 124), HOA/solar rules (SB 144) and lobbying definition changes (SB 286).
The Senate Transparency and Ethics Committee met for its first organizational session. Chair Senator Bowers said the meeting would be short and that the committee "will be assigned budgets this year to work," noting the budgets are time-sensitive and will be handled before remaining bills.
Jason Long of the Office of Revisor of Statutes summarized the bills remaining in committee. He described Senate Bill 12 as a measure that "requires each member of a governing body of a city or county whose district includes territory that is to be acquired by eminent domain, to vote in the affirmative for exercising that eminent domain" when the taking is for recreational grounds. He said there was no hearing on that bill last session.
Long also summarized Senate Bill 37 as a proposal to repeal cities' authority to enact zoning and planning ordinances for territory up…
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