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Senate committee hears S.291 to require disclosure of official travel funded by outside sources
Summary
The Senate Committee on Government Operations reviewed S.291, which would require legislators and specified executive officers to disclose non-state-funded official travel, including who paid, trip purpose, itinerary and itemized costs; counsel said filings go to the State Ethics Commission and the bill includes exceptions for self-paid and U.S. government–funded trips. No vote was taken.
Senator Tanya Fivovsky told the Senate Committee on Government Operations on Feb. 6 that she sponsored S.291 to require disclosure of certain official travel paid for by outside sources, saying, “This is not a prohibition on that travel.”
Legislative counsel Tim Devon told the committee the bill would add a travel-disclosure requirement to the ethics provisions in Title 3, and would require members of the General Assembly and certain executive officers to file disclosures with the State Ethics Commission or another designated office. Devon said the covered executive officers would include the governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, secretary and the attorney general as described in the bill text.
Under the proposal, a filer must report the purpose of…
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