Bill Text: CT SB00849 | 2015 | General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Disclosure Of Leases Or Contracts With Quasi-public Agencies And The Names Of Securities In Statements Of Financial Interest.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-05 - Signed by the Governor [SB00849 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2015-SB00849-Chaptered.html
AN ACT CONCERNING THE DISCLOSURE OF LEASES OR CONTRACTS WITH QUASI-PUBLIC AGENCIES AND THE NAMES OF SECURITIES IN STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL INTEREST.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 1-83 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2016):
(b) (1) The statement of financial interests, except as provided in [subdivision] subdivisions (2) and (3) of this subsection, shall include the following information for the preceding calendar year in regard to the individual required to file the statement and the individual's spouse and dependent children residing in the individual's household: (A) The names of all businesses with which associated; (B) all sources of income, including the name of each employer, with a description of each source, in excess of one thousand dollars, without specifying amounts of income; (C) the name of securities in excess of five thousand dollars at fair market value owned by such individual, spouse or dependent children or held in the name of a corporation, partnership or trust for the benefit of such individual, spouse or dependent children; (D) the existence of any known blind trust and the names of the trustees; (E) all real property and its location, whether owned by such individual, spouse or dependent children or held in the name of a corporation, partnership or trust for the benefit of such individual, spouse or dependent children; (F) the names and addresses of creditors to whom the individual, the individual's spouse or dependent children, individually, owed debts of more than ten thousand dollars; (G) any leases or contracts with the state or a quasi-public agency held or entered into by the individual or a business with which he or she was associated; and (H) a description of any partnership, joint ownership or similar business affiliation between (i) a business included under subparagraph (A) of this subdivision with which the individual filing the statement, the individual's spouse or a dependent child of the individual is associated, and (ii) a lobbyist, a person that the individual filing the statement knows or has reason to know is doing business with or seeking to do business with the state or is engaged in activities that are directly regulated by the department or agency in which the individual is employed, or a business with which such lobbyist or person is associated.
(2) The statement of financial interests filed by state marshals shall include only amounts and sources of income earned in their capacity as state marshals.
(3) In the case of securities in excess of five thousand dollars at fair market value held within (A) a retirement savings plan, as described in Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as amended from time to time, (B) a payroll deduction individual retirement account plan, as described in Section 408 or 408A of said Internal Revenue Code, (C) a governmental deferred compensation plan, as described in Section 457 of said Internal Revenue Code, or (D) an education savings plan, as described in Section 529 of said Internal Revenue Code, the names of such securities shall not be required to be disclosed in any statement of financial interest and only the name of such retirement savings plan, individual retirement account plan, deferred compensation plan or education savings plan holding such securities shall be required.