Joby Richard
LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE—The Republican push for more state spending transparency is back.
The Senate Finance Committee advanced a bill Wednesday to expand a state website to include spending by the judiciary, the Legislature and public universities along with the current data from agencies in the executive branch.
And in the House, Speaker Taylor Barras re-filed his bill to create a new website called the Louisiana Checkbook modeled on a more highly ranked site in Ohio.
Sen. Rick Ward, R-Port Allen, proposed the bill that the Senate committee sent to the floor without objection.
Both Ward’s and Barras’ bills failed earlier
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