How to not have expense item date default to last date used

Summary: The expense item date defaults to last date used. Because of this our users are overlooking this field and enter expenses with incorrect expense date and therefore our auditors are checking this and requiring to reject to have report owner/delegate correct.

Content (required): We would like this field to not populate anything and be left blank, forcing users to enter a date. Can this be accomplished?

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