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Article: State task force starts reworking ethics laws for public officials.(Government)(The work group aims to suggest reforms to the laws, including the severity of penalties)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- November 23, 2005
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Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard
SALEM - A newly formed work group got started Tuesday with its task of considering an overhaul to voter-passed ethics laws that largely have been left alone since their 1974 adoption.
The Oregon Law Commission Government Ethics Work Group held its first meeting to draw up recommended changes.
Gov. Ted Kulongoski and the Legislature both called for the work group to examine Oregon's generation-old ethics laws, which largely have been unchanged since their Watergate-era adoption.
The undertaking comes on the heels of two legislative sessions in which proposed changes were shot down.
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