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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 342

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Relating to: reporting travel expenses for elected state officials seeking national office and providing a penalty. (FE)

Elections Government accountability board Judge Public employee — Travel provisions Public officers Supreme court

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires an elected state official who is considering running for, or

pursuing the nomination or election to, a national office to submit monthly

statements to the Government Accountability Board identifying the official's travel

expenses from the previous month. The bill also requires the official to reimburse

the state for the amount of any state funds that the official used to pay for travel

expenses used to consider or pursue the nomination or election to a national office.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Barca (D) , Barnes (D) , Berceau (D) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Considine (D) , Danou (D) , Doyle (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Hintz (D) , Johnson (D) , Jorgensen (D) , Kolste (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Sargent (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D) , Wachs (D) , Zamarripa (D)

8 cosponsors

C. Larson (D) , Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Hansen (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Lassa (D) , Ringhand (D) , Risser (D)

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Campaigns and Elections and take up, Ayes 35, Noes 61

Failed 35–61 Jan 12, 2016 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Sep 21, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Shankland, Doyle, Barca, Barnes, Berceau, Brostoff, Considine, Danou, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Johnson, Jorgensen, Kolste, Ohnstad, Pope, Sargent, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Subeck, C. Taylor, Wachs and Zamarripa; cosponsored by Senators Hansen, Erpenbach, C. Larson, Lassa, Ringhand, Risser and L. Taylor

  2. Sep 21, 2015 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections

  3. Oct 9, 2015 · Assembly

    Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor

  4. Oct 20, 2015 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Jan 12, 2016 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Campaigns and Elections and take up, Ayes 35, Noes 61

  6. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1