Session taking shape focus
Advocate Capitol News Bureau
Martha Shuler
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s key allies already are proposing changes to his ethics initiative barely a month after the previous changes became laws.
A key House leader in Jindal’s ethics special session is sponsoring legislation to postpone — for a year — the filing deadline for one of several new disclosure reports due from public officials and their kin.
Another Jindal floor leader wants to loosen a ban on free tickets to certain sporting and cultural events to allow legislators to attend political functions without paying.
The bills are among some four dozen proposed changes to state ethics laws submitted in advance of Monday’s start of the 2008 regular legislative session.
Bills seek to expand personal financial reporting to include levee board members, political party executives, more governor’s appointees and transition leaders.
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