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Article: GOP senator to call for special session on ethics

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HARRISBURG -- Despite high-profile charges filed in a state corruption scandal, many Western Pennsylvania lawmakers say they don't believe a special session on ethics would be helpful.

Lawmakers will get the opportunity to make that choice today when Senate State Government Committee Chairman Jeffrey Piccola, R- Dauphin County, articulates a formal ethics reform initiative that would include a petition calling for a special session.

Piccola said a special session could include bills seeking outside audits of legislative funds, a ban on bonuses, the elimination of gifts from lobbyists and a possible constitutional convention to consider structural reforms to the Legislature, such as reducing ...

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