House Bill 608

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Last Action to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
Title AN ACT relating to the Executive Branch Code of Ethics and making an appropriation therefor.
Bill Documents Bill
Impact Statements Fiscal Note
Bill Request Number 1722
Sponsors S. Overly, C. Tackett, B. Yonts
Summary of Original Version Create a new section of KRS Chapter 11A to require public servants to report suspected ethics violations to the Executive Branch Ethics Commission under the protection of KRS 61.102; amend KRS 11A.010 to add definitions; amend KRS 11A.020 to clarify conflict of interest provisions; amend KRS 11A.030 to clarify when a public servant should abstain from action; amend KRS 11A.040 to permit acceptance by a public servant of an award for service valued up to $100 annually; amend KRS 11A.050 to require disclosure of additional information, including telephone numbers, electronic mail addresses, and the nature of the businesses; amend KRS 11A.060 to give certain elected statewide constitutional officers a role in the nomination process of prospective members of the Executive Branch Ethics Commission by submitting lists of nominees to the Governor, who makes the final appointment; amend KRS11A.080 to require dismissal of a complaint if the complainant makes the complaint public; give the Executive Branch Ethics Commission discretion whether to have a hearing or to issue a confidential reprimand under certain specific circumstances; permit referral to law enforcement agencies; amend KRS 11A.100 to establish that a certified copy of the commission's final determination will serve as prima facie evidence of the violation; require funds collected from penalties to be credited to a trust and agency fund account which shall not lapse or revert to the general fund; establish that public servants not subject to KRS Chapter 18A also fall under these provisions; amend KRS 11A.201 to clarify that placement agents are executive agency lobbyists; amend KRS 11A.211 to establish that the commission shall prescribe the registration fee for executive agency lobbyists through the promulgation of administrative regulations; amend KRS 11A.990 to ensure that any officer, public servant, or candidate required to file a statement of financial disclosure under KRS 11A.050 who does not file the statement by the date specified in that section shall have his or her salary withheld from the sixteenth day of noncompliance until the required action is completed; and amend KRS 18A.045 and 11A.045 to conform; APPROPRIATION.
Index Headings of Original Version State Agencies - Executive Branch Code of Ethics, omnibus revision
State Employees - Executive Branch Code of Ethics, omnibus revision
Ethics - Executive Branch Code of Ethics, omnibus revision
Appropriations - Executive Branch Ethics Commission
Fiscal Note - Executive Brance Code of Ethics, omnibus revision
Proposed Amendments House Floor Amendment 1
Votes Vote History

Actions

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03/01/16
  • introduced in House
03/02/16
  • to State Government (H)
  • posted in committee
  • posting waived
03/03/16
  • reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
03/04/16
  • 2nd reading, to Rules
03/07/16
  • posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 8, 2016
  • floor amendment (1) filed
03/18/16
  • 3rd reading, passed 94-0 with floor amendment (1)
03/21/16
  • received in Senate
03/23/16
  • to Appropriations & Revenue (S)

Proposed Amendments

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Amendment House Floor Amendment 1
Sponsor K. Upchurch
Summary Amend KRS 11A.060 to increase the size of the commission from five to seven members, to stipulate that the Governor appoint the first and second members of the commission and that the Commissioner of Agriculture submit 3 nominees to the Governor for the seventh commission member; amend KRS 11A.211 to set the executive agency lobbyist fee at $250.
Index Headings State Agencies - Executive Branch Code of Ethics, omnibus revision
State Employees - Executive Branch Code of Ethics, omnibus revision
Ethics - Executive Branch Code of Ethics, omnibus revision
Appropriations - Executive Branch Ethics Commission
Fiscal Note - Executive Brance Code of Ethics, omnibus revision

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