Indiana Senate Bill 284 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-01-07 - First reading: referred to Committee on Rules & Legislative Procedure
Pending: Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Lobbying and funding of certain organizations. Adds a prohibition against a lobbyist providing anything of value to, or paying for or reimbursing any expenses of, a legislative person when the legislative person is traveling out of state. Makes it a Level 6 felony for a governmental entity to compensate a person to engage in lobbying using tax revenue. Specifies that such an agreement is void. Invalidates any state appropriation that is made from a fund that receives revenue derived from the imposition of a state tax to the extent the appropriation is used to pay expenses related to the Council

Lobbying and funding of certain organizations. Adds a prohibition against a lobbyist providing anything of value to, or paying for or reimbursing any expenses of, a legislative person when the legislative person is traveling out of state. Makes it a Level 6 felony for a governmental entity to compensate a person to engage in lobbying using tax revenue. Specifies that such an agreement is void. Invalidates any state appropriation that is made from a fund that receives revenue derived from the imposition of a state tax to the extent the appropriation is used to pay expenses related to the Council

Sen. Michael Delph [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-07	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Rules & Legislative Procedure
2016-01-07	Senate	Authored by Senator Delph

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2016/bills/senate/284/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/5/8/a/658a71f3/SB0284.01.INTR.pdf