05RS HB211

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HB 211 (BR 977) - J. Wayne

AN ACT relating to executive branch ethics.
Amend KRS 11A.010, relating to the Executive Branch Ethics Commission, to define "person" and "matter"; amend KRS 11A.040 to permit the commission to authorize exceptions to the post-employment provisions; require an annual, rather than quarterly, report of employees approved for outside employment; amend KRS 11A.045; permit acceptance of gifts up to $50, rather than $25, in a single calendar year; amend KRS 11A.050 to extend the filing deadline for financial disclosure statements from 30 days to 90 days upon leaving state government; require the statement to include the "nature" of a business as well as its name and address; amend KRS 11A.080 to change reference to a final "determination" to a final "order" issued by the commission as a result of an administrative proceeding; permit the commission to confirm that an investigation has been initiated, or terminated, if the alleged violations were referred publicly from a public agency; amend KRS 11A.130 to clarify language relating to employment in a privatized service; amend KRS 11A.211 to require employers of executive agency lobbyists to pay a registration fee of $100 to be deposited in a trust and agency account for the commission; direct these funds to be used to supplement general fund appropriations to the commission; direct that the funds not lapse; amend KRS 11A.990 to require that salary withholding resulting from failure to file a financial disclosure statement by the deadline begin on the sixteenth day of noncompliance rather than the first day.

     Feb 1-introduced in House
     Feb 2-to State Government (H)
     Feb 4-posted in committee
     Feb 8-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
     Feb 9-2nd reading, to Rules; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 10, 2005
     Feb 15-3rd reading, passed 92-3
     Feb 16-received in Senate
     Feb 22-to State and Local Government (S)
     Mar 3-taken from committee; laid on clerk's desk; taken from clerk's desk; 1st reading; returned to State and Local Government (S)

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