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Legislative Ethics Update
REMINDER: All legislative agent and employer registrations with the Legislative Ethics Commission will expire on December 31, 2009. Blank Initial Registration Statements were mailed in November for the new two-year period beginning January 1, 2010 and ending on December 31, 2011. Initial registration forms CANNOT be filed online.

 A registration fee of $250 must be paid by the employer of one or more legislative agents. This fee may be paid by check, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, or Discover. If the registration fee is paid by check, the check should be made payable to the Kentucky State Treasurer. If paid by credit card, the registration, along with the completed credit card form, may be faxed or mailed to the Commission. The Initial Registration Statement may be printed from the Commission’s website: http://klec.ky.gov/
 
The employer must sign the registration form of each legislative agent. Questions or requests for information should be directed to the Legislative Ethics Commission at (502) 573-2863.
Ethics Update Sessions for Legislators
 
Norman J. Ornstein will be the featured speaker for Day 1 of the ethics update sessions for legislators on Wednesday, January 6, 2010. The session will run from at 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in Room 149 of the Capitol Annex.
 
Mr. Ornstein is a long-time observer of Congress and politics, and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He is an election analyst for CBS News and writes a weekly column called "Congress Inside Out" for Roll Call newspaper. He serves as co-director of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project, has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and other major publications, and regularly appears on television programs like The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and Charlie Rose.
 
Day 2 of the ethics update will be a discussion of Kentucky’s Code of Legislative Ethics and of ethics and corruption problems which have arisen recently in other state legislatures. The Day 2 session is on Thursday, January 7, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in Room 149 of the Capitol Annex.
 
The Day 2 speaker will be Peggy Kerns, Director of the Center for Ethics in Government at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). She is a former businesswoman who served in the Colorado House of Representatives from 1989 to 1997, including two years as Minority Floor Leader.

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