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HB 368                                                                                                                        
The State Affairs Committee considered CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO.                                                                    
368(FIN) am "An Act amending the Legislative Ethics Act to modify                                                               
the limitation on political fund raising by legislators and legislative                                                         
employees during legislative sessions, to allow legislators and                                                                 
legislative employees to accept certain gifts from lobbyists, to clarify                                                        
the Legislative Ethics Act as it relates to legislative volunteers and                                                          
educational trainees, to reduce the frequency of publication of                                                                 

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summaries by the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics, and to                                                                 
revise procedures and fines related to the late filing of disclosures                                                           
required by the Legislative Ethics Act" and recommended it be                                                                   
replaced with                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
          SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO.                                                                                   
          368(STA) "An Act relating to allowing legislators                                                                     
          and legislative employees to accept certain gifts from                                                                
          lobbyists, to clarifying the Legislative Ethics Act as it                                                             
          relates to legislative volunteers and educational                                                                     
          trainees, to reducing the frequency of publication of                                                                 
          summaries by the Select Committee on Legislative                                                                      
          Ethics, and to revising procedures and fines related to                                                               
          the late filing of disclosures required by the                                                                        
          Legislative Ethics Act."                                                                                              
          (Title change SCR forthcoming)                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
Signing do pass: Senator McGuire, Chair. Signing no                                                                             
recommendation: Senators French, Stevens, Bunde.                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
The following previously published fiscal information applies:                                                                  
 Fiscal Note No. 1, zero, Department of Administration                                                                          
 Fiscal Note No. 2, zero, Legislative Agency                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
The bill was referred to the Rules Committee.