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PRINTER'S NO. 2287
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1998
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY HANBIDGE, HERRIN AND OTTEN, OCTOBER 21, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, OCTOBER 21, 2021
AN ACT
Amending Titles 65 (Public Officers) and 71 (State Government)
of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in ethics
standards and financial disclosure, further providing for
restricted activities; and, in benefits, providing for
payment of benefits from the system to former members of
General Assembly.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1103(g) of Title 65 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 1103. Restricted activities.
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(g) Former official or employee.--
(1) No former public official or public employee shall
represent a person, with promised or actual compensation, on
any matter before the governmental body with which he has
been associated for one year after he leaves that body.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a former
member of the General Assembly who represents a person, with
promised or actual compensation, in any matter before the
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General Assembly may not receive pension benefits
administered by the State Employees' Retirement System or
health benefits administered by the Commonwealth during the
calendar year when the former member assists or acts in a
representative capacity before the General Assembly. This
paragraph shall only apply to former members of the General
Assembly first elected after the effective date of this
paragraph.
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Section 2. Title 71 is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 5711. Payment of benefits from the system to former members
of General Assembly.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a former member
of the General Assembly who represents a person, with promised
or actual compensation, in any matter before the General
Assembly may not receive benefits from the system during the
calendar year when the former member assists or acts in a
representative capacity before the General Assembly. This
section shall only apply to former members of the General
Assembly first elected after the effective date of this
paragraph.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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