Post by Logan on Mar 2, 2016 5:28:23 GMT -6
House panel deals setback to Norment's ethics law revisions
A House of Delegates panel has dealt a setback to a Senate effort to undo key parts of last year’s ethics reform.
On Monday, the House Courts of Justice subcommittee on ethics recommended advancing an amended version of Senate Bill 692, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr., R-James City.
The House panel conformed Norment’s bill to legislation sponsored by Del. C. Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah, which makes lesser, housekeeping changes to the ethics law.
“We didn’t want to do wholesale changes to our ethics rules every year,” said Del. J. Randall Minchew, R-Loudoun, chairman of the ethics subcommittee.
Read more: www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_0ecb04d1-b743-5b1c-b68c-10fe4b031bb0.html
A House of Delegates panel has dealt a setback to a Senate effort to undo key parts of last year’s ethics reform.
On Monday, the House Courts of Justice subcommittee on ethics recommended advancing an amended version of Senate Bill 692, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr., R-James City.
The House panel conformed Norment’s bill to legislation sponsored by Del. C. Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah, which makes lesser, housekeeping changes to the ethics law.
“We didn’t want to do wholesale changes to our ethics rules every year,” said Del. J. Randall Minchew, R-Loudoun, chairman of the ethics subcommittee.
Read more: www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_0ecb04d1-b743-5b1c-b68c-10fe4b031bb0.html