The final meeting of the Legislature’s interim Ethics Subcommittee will be held Monday, with the prospects for the approval of serious ethics reform during the session remaining unclear.
The committee will meet at 1:30 p.m. in room 315 at the Roundhouse to finalize its recommendations for ethics reform. The committee has considered the recommendations of the governor’s task force and its own ideas.
But the Senate will be hesitant to approve any ethics reform, and the governor didn’t mention ethics reform in his speech on Thursday. He’ll spend the next few days preparing for the 30-day session that begins Tuesday, but he hasn’t yet announced what, other than health-care reform, will be debated.
Bills have already been written that would propose campaign contribution limits, expanded public financing, opening legislative conference committees and other changes, but the governor must agree before the Legislature can consider them.