What is the effect of this law?

It prohibits public funds from secretly being passed-through from one entity to another at       the direction of a member of the Legislature. 

It does not prohibit a member of the Legislature from performing his/her duties and supporting a valid program of an agency. It would require, however, that spending on projects be included in the budgets.

Why is it important to ban Pass-through-Pork?

In order to build trust among the citizens of the state, the Legislature must eliminate deception in the budgeting process and be transparent as to how it spends taxpayer dollars.

Currently, state law allows the deceptive practice of “pass-through pork,” whereby a legislator directs state money from an agency to a particular spending project of the legislator’s choosing.  This means the spending earmark is not revealed to the public anywhere in any budget.