WHEREAS, public confidence in government may be achieved by openness, especially concerning those giving financial support to promote or oppose legislation or attempting to influence executive or administrative actions; and

       WHEREAS, the 2006 Idaho Legislature amended portions of title 67, chapter 66 of the Idaho Code to include, among other things, a broader definition of executive official and require lobbyists to report their activities with executive officials; and

      WHEREAS, the Idaho Legislature’s amendments to title 67, section 6602 of the Idaho Code under House Bill 707 do not expressly cover employees of executive officials; and

     WHEREAS, the Idaho Legislature’s amendments to title 67, chapter 66 of the Idaho Code, including the expanded definition of “executive official” became effective July 1, 2006;

      NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “Butch” Otter, Governor of the State of Idaho, by the authority vested in me under the Constitution and laws of the State of Idaho do hereby order:

      That the amended definition of “executive official” under title 67, section 6602 of the Idaho Code, for the purposes of title 67, chapter 66, shall also include staff members employed within the Office of the Governor.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this 8th day of January in the year of our Lord two thousand and seven and of the independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred seventeenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE