The Idaho Legislature will appoint 10 lawmakers to a working group to re-examine its ethics and campaign finance laws and make recommendations to next year’s Legislature.
The Spokesman review reports that right now, Idaho is one of just three states with no financial disclosure requirements for state legislators or any elected or appointed state official and lacks “revolving-door” laws that prevent elected officials cashing in of their government experience.
This is not the first time this issue has come up, in 2009 the Idaho Senate unanimously passed legislation to impose the state’s first financial disclosure requirements but the bill died without a hearing in the House and an ethics and campaign finance reform voter initiative barely missed the threshold to make the Idaho ballot in 2016.
