Before the Legislative Sunset Committee questions this morning representatives of the state occupational licensing boards and other agencies it authorizes, it will have a new requirement. People answering questions about licensure boards’ spending, revenue or their fees on licensees will be sworn in and asked to tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,” committee co-chair Rep. Margie Wilcox, R-Mobile, said Wednesday. “We’re going to start holding people accountable for untruthful comments or rhetoric or just flat-out fibs and lies,” Wilcox said during the committee’s work session that previewed today’s meeting. She’ll bring a Bible on which people can make the pledge. Until about two years ago, the sunset meetings were non-events in the State House, largely a rubbe
No ‘fibs and lies,’ Sunset committee meets today

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