Bill Text: GA HB1296 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public employees; file yearly disclosure statements with State Ethics Commission; provide

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-10 - House Second Readers [HB1296 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2009-HB1296-Introduced.html

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10 LC 29 4222

House Bill 1296

By: Representative Wilkinson of the 52nd

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend Code Section 45-10-26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to public officials and employees filing yearly disclosure statements concerning business transactions with the state, so as to provide that such filings be made with the State Ethics Commission; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Code Section 45-10-26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to public officials and employees filing yearly disclosure statements concerning business transactions with the state, is amended by revising subsection (a) as follows:

"(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, any public official or employee, whether for himself, herself, or on behalf of any business, or any business in which such public official or employee or any member of his or her family has a substantial interest who transacts business with the state or any agency thereof shall disclose such transactions. Such disclosure shall be submitted prior to January 31 each year to the Secretary of State Ethics Commission on such forms as he it shall prescribe and shall include an itemized list of the previous year's transactions with the dollar amount of each transaction reported and totaled. Such disclosure statements shall be public records."

SECTION 2.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.