AN ACT relating to the executive branch ethics code.
     Amend KRS 11A.010, relating to the executive branch ethics code, to clarify that the list of major management personnel is not limited to those printed in the definition of "officer"; add to the definition of "officer" members of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, Charitable Asset Administration Board, Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority, Real Estate Commission, Auctioneers Board, State Board of Elections, and Unemployment Insurance Commission; delete from the definition of "officer" full time chief administrative officers of the current listed boards and commissions; delete from the definition of "officer" members and full time chief administrative officers of the Kentucky Retirement Systems Board of Trustees, Kentucky Board of Education, State Board for Adult and Technical Education, and the Council on Postsecondary Education; prohibit members of boards, commissions, authorities, councils, or committees in the executive branch of state government from doing business with the body of which he is a member; direct that the prohibition not apply to purchases that are available on the same terms to the general public or which are made a public auction; require any member of a state executive branch board, commission, authority, council, or committee to disclose to the other members any personal interest that conflicts with that of the entity; specify procedures for the disclosure; require abstention from decisions concerning his personal interest; set forth certain exceptions; require members of a board, commission, authority, council, or committee in the executive branch to be subject to KRS 11A.045 pertaining to the acceptance of gifts by public servants; amend KRS 11A.990, to direct that the salary withholding penalty for failure to file statement of disclosure by the statutory deadline be computed from the sixteenth day of noncompliance rather than the first day of noncompliance; amend KRS 11A.045 to conform.

     Feb 21-introduced in Senate
     Feb 26-to State and Local Government (S)