Boise (670 KBOI) – A proposed bill which would have required state, county and city elected officials in Idaho to disclose the source of any income over $5,000 has been shot down in the House State Affairs Committee.

Committee Chairman Tom Loertscher of Iona, who sponsored the proposal, told the committee it’s something that’s bound to happen, whether by legislative action of by a vote of the public.

“Financial disclosure of elected officials is in your future,” Loertscher told committee members.  “Because this will happen at some point.  The point of this legislation and the way its written is to make this the least intrusive way I can think of to accomplish that.”

Rep Vito Barbieri of Dalton Gardens, said requiring spouses and family members to disclose their financial information would put targets on their backs, and on the backs of their donors.

Loertscher told him they all had targets on their backs already.