2018 Senate Bill 1021

Create a state “independent counsel” law

Introduced in the Senate

May 17, 2018

Introduced by Sen. Steve Bieda (D-9)

To create a state “independent counsel” law like the federal one that was adopted after Watergate (and substantially revised since), which would empower the governor or the attorney general to appoint an independent counsel to investigate and prosecute cases where they determine that the attorney general has a conflict of interest.

Referred to the Committee on Government Operations