{"id":452,"date":"2008-04-16T16:39:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T21:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2008\/04\/16\/transparency-budget-proviso-passes\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T16:39:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T21:39:28","slug":"transparency-budget-proviso-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/transparency-budget-proviso-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"transparency budget proviso passes"},"content":{"rendered":"

update: anderson independent’s coverage saturday, april 19th<\/a>
\nSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA<\/span><\/strong><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong>THE SENATE
\n<\/span><\/strong>For Immediate Release
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/font>April 16, 2008
\n<\/span><\/font>
\nSenator Bryant Gains Approval for Online Register
\n<\/o:p><\/span>State would withhold general operating funding to noncompliant counties<\/span><\/em>.
\n<\/span><\/em>
\n<\/o:p><\/span><\/font>Columbia, SC<\/span><\/strong> – As part of the ongoing Senate budget debate Senator Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson) today proposed a proviso to the budget that would withhold general operating funding the state returns to county governments for one year unless the county maintains an online, searchable, register of expenses that includes all checks over $100 and county credit card statements. The Senate voted to adopt the\u00a0proviso to the General Appropriations Bill.
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\n<\/span>\u201cFinally the taxpayer will have easy access to see how his or h<\/a><\/span>er hard earn taxpayer money is being spent,\u201d says Senator Bryant.
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\n<\/span><\/o:p><\/span>The amendment requires the register be updated once a month and include the amount of the expenditure, name of the payee, and an explanation on the purpose of the expenditure. The register will not include salaries or information that can identify individual employees. The monthly additions to the register must be maintained online for at least one-year.
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\n<\/span><\/o:p><\/span>Today\u2019s action is similar to the Truth in Spending Act (S.1144) Senator Bryant co-sponsored earlier this year, although the proviso would only be enacted for fiscal year 2008-2009. The State Comptroller General, Richard Eckstrom,<\/a> is currently maintaining similar state\u00a0agency registers\u00a0for little or no additional cost. The comptroller\u2019s office has offered its assistance to local governments to help them fulfill this requirement. Sen. Bryant may be reached on his cell phone for additional comments at 864.202.8394.
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\n<\/span><\/o:p><\/span>###
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\n<\/span><\/o:p><\/span>Douglas Ford
\nMajority Communications Director
\n<\/o:p><\/span>South Carolina Senate
\n803.212.6295 – office<\/span>\"hide_money_070920_ms.jpg\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

update: anderson independent’s coverage saturday, april 19th STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINATHE SENATE For Immediate Release April 16, 2008 Senator Bryant Gains Approval for Online Register State would withhold general operating funding to noncompliant counties. Columbia, SC – As part of the ongoing Senate budget debate Senator Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson) today proposed a proviso to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-7i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}