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Local Government Wage and Fee Transparency Act
(Jones, D-Calumet City) provides that any attorney who has two or more clients that are units of local government, the attorney shall perform an annual audit of all: (1) fees and charges billed to, and paid by, each unit of local government client; (2) referral fees paid by the attorney to a person or business for the referral of a unit of local government to the attorney; and (3) referral fees paid to the attorney for referring a unit of local government to another attorney. House Bill 728 was just introduced.