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Senate Rules Committee adopts ban on soliciting or accepting campaign donations during session
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The Senate Rules Committee approved a permanent rule (option 2) barring senators from knowingly soliciting or accepting campaign contributions on days when the Senate is in regular or special session, with an exception for truly passive, unknowing receipt.
The Senate Rules Committee voted to adopt a permanent rule prohibiting senators from knowingly soliciting or accepting legislative campaign contributions on any day the Senate is in regular or special session.
Senator Nethercott introduced the redraft, saying the committee aimed to clarify language from a version sent to the Senate last week. "No senator shall knowingly solicit and accept by affirmative act a legislative campaign contribution on any day during which the senate is in regular or special session," he read to the committee and framed as a tightening to require an "affirmative act." He and the committee also…
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