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• State Sen. Leland Yee,D-San Francisco/San Mateo, was honored with the Public Official Award by the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists last night for his opposition to efforts to weaken the California Public Records Act by loosening disclosure requirements for local governments.
• State Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, amended legislation to require nonprofits that pay for trips taken by members of the Legislature and other state and local officials elected in California to disclose to the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) the names of donors that funded the travel.
Currently, nonprofits do not have to disclose the source of travel funding, preventing the public from knowing who was behind the gift to the elected official, according to Hill’s office.
Hill’s provision was amended into Senate Bill 831, which he introduced earlier this year to modernize California’s 1974 Political Reform Act. The bill, among other restrictions, would ban elected officials from moving campaign funds to nonprofits owned or operated by members of their families, according to Hill’s office.
Because it makes changes to the voter-approved California Political Reform Act, governing disclosure of political money, SB 831 requires a two-thirds vote of the Legislature, according to Hill’s office.
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