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Last Updated on Wednesday, 4 March 2009 11:20 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 4 March 2009 11:20
From AZStarnet:
Responding to questions over public access to costs associated with Tucson’s Rio Nuevo project, a House committee made the first step Tuesday toward requiring local governments to report online how they spend state dollars.
On a party line vote, the House Government Committee passed HB 2615. The bill still needs to pass the full House and the Senate before going to the governor.
“It shouldn’t take a public-records request to get simple information that the public should be able to find,” said Jonathan Paton, R-Tucson, who is sponsoring an identical measure in the Senate and testified before the committee.