KRS 7.505: Web site to provide public access to expenditure records of legislative branch

-- Monthly and weekly updates -- Commission is sole custodian of information

and records -- Branches to share software and applications.

(1) By January 1, 2012, the Legislati ve Research Commission shall provide public

access to records relating to expenditures of the legislative branch of state

government through display of the records on a Web site. The Web site shall

provide:

(a) Financial information of expenditures not exempt under the provisions of state

or federal law, including:

1. The payee name;

2. The category or type of the expenditure;

3. A description of the reason for the expenditure, if available;

4. The expenditure amount; and

5. A link to the financial document , if the document is electronically

available;

(b) A searchable format;

(c) Access to the current enacted Legislative Branch Budget; and

(d) A link to the public access Web site displays of the executive and judicial

branches of state government, and of th e public institutions of higher

education.

(2) Information on the Web site shall be updated at least on a monthly basis. However,

information on the Web site which is part of, or contained in, an electronic

accounting system utilized by all branches of sta te government, such as the

Enhanced Management Administrative Reporting System (EMARS), shall be

updated on a weekly basis.

(3) The Commission shall maintain exclusive control and be considered the sole

custodian of all information and records generated by and through activity of the

legislative branch of government, notwithstanding the situs of the information and

records in another branch of government, and disclosure thereof shall only be by the

Commission in accordance with applicable law.

(4) In order to reduce Web site development costs and enhance public access and use of

records viewed through Web sites as provided by this section and KRS 26A.260

and 42.032, each branch of state government shall freely share with the other

branches of state government the software, software developments, and all

applications, data, and information within its control used for Web site design,

appearance, content, and operation in compliance with, or in furtherance of, the

purposes contemplated by this section and KRS 26A.260 and 42.032.