RICHMOND — A bill that will let people look up state expenditures online won final passage on a 40-0 vote Wednesday in the Virginia Senate.
Its sponsor, Del. Ben Cline, R-Rockbridge, said the measure improves an existing online database, called Commonwealth Datapoint, by speeding up the information the state had planned to post there.
Originally, Cline’s HB 2285 would have directed state information-technology officials to create a new searchable database for the state budget.
“Instead, the bill is trying to improve an existing database” managed by the state auditor of public accounts, Cline said.
“My bill puts it on steroids,” Cline said.
The data to become available will include line-item expenditures and spending on projects, according to the bill.
Order numbers, invoices and receipt information will be included so the public can “identify all supplies of goods, commodities and other services to the Commonwealth,” the bill said.
State Sen. Ken Cuccinelli, R-Fairfax, sponsored a similar bill that passed the House of Delegates 100-0 on Wednesday.
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