A proposed assembly bill seeks new disclosure requirements for private organizations that do contract work for local governments.
Hayward Democratic Assemblymember Liz Ortega is behind a union-backed bill that would add new disclosure requirements for private organizations — many of them nonprofits — that do work for local governments under contract.LAist is facing a budget shortfall, but our mission to provide fact-based journalism is stronger than ever. We cannot do this important work without your member support today.
Local governments rely on contractors to perform a wide range of services paid with taxpayer funds. Contractors run animal shelters and after-school programs. They provide health care in local jails as well as homeless, legal aid and immigration services. Contractors cut fire breaks around rural communities, perform engineering services for public works projects, build affordable housing and fix government computer systems.
“It really impugns the sector, the whole nonprofit sector, and insults those who work in it and lead it,” Green told CalMatters., they regularly get their way on bills at higher rates than other prolific lobbying groups, due in part to the massive amounts of money they spend on state politics. Unions have donated at least $22 million to sitting legislators’ campaigns since 2020, according to the
Her latest bill would have originally put more requirements on contractors than the version California’s 40 state senators are now considering. Ortega told the Senate committee last week the measure is intended to improve transparency and accountability. However, 11 Democratic lawmakers — most of them former local elected officials — didn’t vote on the bill when it was on the Assembly floor last month., not voting counts the same as voting “no,” and lawmakers regularly don’t vote on controversial bills to avoid angering influential groups such as unions., the former mayor of Orinda, became the lone Democrat in the Legislature to cast a “no” vote so far on the proposal.
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