2004 House Bill 5475 ↩

Senate Roll Call 788: Passed

To require Intermediate School Districts (ISDs) to post on their Web sites a standardized form with details regarding expenditures. Among these would be the dates, purpose and locations of travel for personnel whose annual travel expenses exceed $3,000, including air travel, lodging, car rental, and meal costs; details on certain contracts and subcontracts where a board member, administrator or family member had a monetary interest; the salaries, expense accounts, bonuses, stipends, etc. of certain high-paid personnel; fiber optic network and software costs; the total budget percentages, amounts and details of payments for administrative costs public relations, polling, lobbying, or legal services; the amounts and details of payments of over $25,000 to independent contractors; a list and descriptions of cars owned or leased by the ISD; and more. The state will provide links to the information on its own Web site.