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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY BRADFORD, GIBBONS, BROWN, BURNS, CLYMER, CUTLER, DeLUCA, GEIST, HORNAMAN, MARKOSEK, MURT, M. O'BRIEN, SWANGER, J. TAYLOR AND YUDICHAK, MARCH 25, 2010 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 25, 2010 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 65 (Public Officers) of the Pennsylvania |
2 | Consolidated Statutes, in ethics standards and financial |
3 | disclosure, further providing for definitions and for |
4 | restricted activities. |
5 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
6 | hereby enacts as follows: |
7 | Section 1. Section 1102 of Title 65 of the Pennsylvania |
8 | Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a definition to read: |
9 | § 1102. Definitions. |
10 | The following words and phrases when used in this chapter |
11 | shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the |
12 | meanings given to them in this section: |
13 | * * * |
14 | "Equity holder." An individual who is: |
15 | (1) engaged in a business enterprise; and |
16 | (2) entitled to share in: |
17 | (i) the policy decisions of that business |
18 | enterprise; |
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1 | (ii) the profits of that business enterprise; or |
2 | (iii) the assets of that enterprise upon |
3 | dissolution. |
4 | The term does not include an individual whose investment in the |
5 | business enterprise does not constitute a financial interest. |
6 | * * * |
7 | Section 2. Section 1103(a) of Title 65 is amended to read: |
8 | § 1103. Restricted activities. |
9 | (a) Conflict of interest.-- |
10 | (1) No public official or public employee shall engage |
11 | in conduct that constitutes a conflict of interest. |
12 | (2) The following governs a specific conflict of |
13 | interest involving lobbyists: |
14 | (i) This paragraph applies to a public official who |
15 | is: |
16 | (A) a member of the executive branch; |
17 | (B) a member of the Senate or the House of |
18 | Representatives; or |
19 | (C) a member of the judicial branch of the |
20 | Commonwealth. |
21 | (ii) A public official subject to subparagraph (i) |
22 | may not, during the public official's term of office, be |
23 | an equity holder in a business enterprise that: |
24 | (A) is required to register as a lobbyist under |
25 | Chapter 13A (relating to lobbying disclosure); or |
26 | (B) retains the services of a person required to |
27 | register as a lobbyist under Chapter 13A. |
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29 | Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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