There is new voice advocating a part of the Legislative Accountability Amendment:  www.readthebill.org

It’s common sense really – if ignorance of the law is no excuse for those who have to follow it, how much more important is it that those who vote on creating the law have actually read what they are voting on.

It is also important for concerned citizens to have an opportunity to read and contact their representatives on the details of a bill, not just the (usually misleading) title and the ten second sound bite of what the bill’s sponsors (and/or anti-sponsors) claim it will do.

Publishing the complete text of each bill for 72 hours before debating/voting will make government more transparent and more responsive to the will of the people.

To those of you who say “Who cares?  I haven’t got time to read that stuff anyway”, then support my idea of limiting bills to no more than 2 pages.  Much easier to read and much harder to hide special interest catering.

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