H.3228 would prohibit any “state agency, instrumentality, or department”, from expending public funds to contract with a lobbyist. This prohibition would help to prevent the astronomically wasteful practice of an agency hiring a lobbyist to promote increasing said agencies budget i.e. spending government money to ask for more government spending.
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