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NCPE Town Hall Meeting Join us on June 28, 2008 for the Third NCPE Town Hall Meeting. NCPE in the News: 2008 "Court Hopeful Says Consultant Pitched Deal" (Las Vegas Review Journal) "Given $50,000 He Decides to Run" (Las Vegas Sun) Acting President Julie Tousa on Jon Ralston's "Face to Face: Ethics Complaint" Meet the Acting President of NCPE, Julie Tousa "New Watchdog of Public Ethics Continues Enforcing Vital Unwritten Law" (Las Vegas Review Journal) "Partying Away As Taxpayers Pay and Pay" (Las Vegas Sun) Ethics Legislation 2007 NCPE at the 2007 Nevada State Legislature: Summary and Details "Article 6 Commission" to study and recommend improvements in the Nevada judiciary NCPE statement about the danger of big donors contributing to Supreme Court justice election campaigns. Judicial Ethics & the Complaint Processes Craig Walton's letter, to the Las Vegas Business Journal in favor of the new plan for judicial selection
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April 14, 2007 Dear RJ; About your story on Friday the 13th, when some bills at the Legislature died and others lived, there were also ethics bills in both categories. AB 80 lives, to require Limited Liability Corporations (“LLC’s) to disclose their gifts and contributions to politicians. AB 142 will require ethics instruction for elected officials and for lobbyists, and will require lobbyists who lobby the Executive Branch to undertake the same reporting of spending as for those lobbying the Legislature, and AB 143 allows an ethics complainee to find out what happened to his complaint. SB 425 seeks to limit contributions to city and county politicians within a period just before and after they vote on an issue dear to the “contributor”, and SB 495 extends the “cooling off” period to some powerful officials not now covered. AB 335 limits the period in which politicians can accept contributions, provides for electronic disclosure forms to be filed and posted on the Secretary of State’s website, allows legislators to attend duty-related meetings without having to call them “gifts”, and requires those who lobby appointed officials to register and report spending just as is done for those lobbying elected officials. Bills that died include SB 494, which would have made the campaign contribution reporting deadline prior to the start of early voting. As things stand, then, you either vote early without knowing who gave what to whom, or you wait for that report and cannot vote early. AB 312 sort of died - one of its good parts was put into AB 335, but the one about allowing the Commission on Ethics to use hypothetical examples to illustrate interpretation of ethics laws is dead. So too, so far, are provisions for which we could not find any sponsor, to provide more concrete detail on financial disclosure forms and to provide campaign contribution reporting on a monthly basis in election years and a quarterly basis in non-election years. But, finally, all is not lost: ideas which were not adopted in one house of the legislature can now be offered to the other house, as the “alive” bills move from one to the other. We’ve testified at 14 hearings so far, and will be there for more hearings as the next stage of legislating unfolds, to work for final passage of the good ideas still alive, and to put life into those that didn’t make it out of their committee of origin. Respectfully, Craig Walton,
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