Gwinnett Daily Post | New ethics rules, lobbying cap signed into law

With the governor’s signature Monday, news laws took strides to control ethics in the financing of politics in Georgia.

Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law two bills that shore up rules on lobbying legislators and funding campaigns.

Five months after calling for ethics reform in his State of the State address, Deal signed House Bill 142, which places a $75 cap on lobbyist spending at the General Assembly and makes trips and expensive tickets to events illegal. He also signed House Bill 143, which requires more transparency in campaign fund-raising and spending during certain local races and allows the public to know about any campaign donations given to members of the General Assembly leading up to the start of the legislative session.

“I have enacted these bills to strengthen ethics laws in our state because the public demanded it and good government longed for it,” Deal said in a press release.

via Gwinnett Daily Post | New ethics rules, lobbying cap signed into law.