Katz to Offer Ethics Bill for Transportation Panel
Responding to reports of extraordinary lobbying by contractors seeking work on the Metro Green Line, Assemblyman Richard Katz (D-Sylmar) said Thursday that he will introduce a bill to create an ethics code for the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission.
Katz, chairman of the Assembly Transportation Committee, said that overruns on the project--originally budgeted at $814 million but now expected to cost more than $1 billion--threaten to force the LACTC to postpone or cancel other transit projects. Katz said that his bill would require lobbyists to disclose their employers and how much they spend lobbying the LACTC, limit gifts that board members and staff can receive, and prohibit former LACTC employees from lobbying the agency.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
