Bill Text: IA SF2323 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to prohibitions and disclosure requirements concerning outside employment or activities requiring registration as a foreign agent and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SSB 3086.) Effective 7-1-18.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-04-02 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 859. [SF2323 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF2323-Enrolled.html

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Senate File 2323 - Enrolled




                              SENATE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON STATE
                                  GOVERNMENT

                              (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                  3086)
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                                       Senate File 2323

                             AN ACT
 RELATING TO PROHIBITIONS AND DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS
    CONCERNING OUTSIDE EMPLOYMENT OR ACTIVITIES REQUIRING
    REGISTRATION AS A FOREIGN AGENT AND MAKING PENALTIES
    APPLICABLE.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  Section 2.32, subsection 9, Code 2018, is amended
 to read as follows:
    9.  A person whose appointment is subject to senate
 confirmation shall make available to the senate committee
 to which the appointment is referred, upon the committee's
 request, a notarized statement that the person has filed
 federal and state income tax returns for the three years
 immediately preceding the appointment, or a notarized statement
 of the legal reason for failure to file.  In addition, a person
 whose appointment is subject to senate confirmation shall make
 available to the senate committee to which the appointment is
 referred a notarized statement on whether the person has filed
 a registration statement pursuant to the federal Foreign Agents
 Registration Act of 1938, as amended, 22 U.S.C. {611 et seq.
  If the appointment is to a board, commission, council, or other
 body empowered to take disciplinary action, all complaints and
 statements of charges, settlement agreements, findings of fact,
 and orders pertaining to any disciplinary action taken by that
 board, commission, council, or body in a contested case against
 the person whose appointment is being reviewed by the senate
 shall be made available to the senate committee to which the
 appointment is referred upon its request.
    Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  7E.8  Members of boards, committees,
 commissions, and councils ==== disclosure requirements.
    A member of any board, committee, commission, or council who
 was subject to senate confirmation pursuant to section 2.32
 shall disclose to the appointing authority for that board,
 committee, commission, or council if the member has filed
 subsequent to senate confirmation a registration statement
 pursuant to the federal Foreign Agents Registration Act of
 1938, as amended, 22 U.S.C. {611 et seq.
    Sec. 3.  NEW SECTION.  8A.403  Hiring procedures ==== nonmerit
 system positions.
    The department shall establish, by rule, procedures
 providing for the hiring of employees by a state agency to
 positions that are not covered by the merit system.  The
 procedures shall require that an applicant for employment to
 a position that is not covered by the merit system disclose,
 in writing, whether the applicant has filed a registration
 statement pursuant to the federal Foreign Agents Registration
 Act of 1938, as amended, 22 U.S.C. {611 et seq.
    Sec. 4.  NEW SECTION.  8A.404  State employees ==== disclosure
 requirements.
    An employee of a state agency shall disclose to the
 hiring authority for that employee if the employee has filed
 subsequent to hire a registration statement pursuant to the
 federal Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended,
 22 U.S.C. {611 et seq.
    Sec. 5.  NEW SECTION.  8A.405  Foreign agent registration
 disclosures ==== penalty.
    A person who willfully violates section 8A.403, section
 8A.404, or section 8A.413, subsection 5A, or rules adopted
 pursuant to these provisions, is guilty of a serious
 misdemeanor.
    Sec. 6.  Section 8A.413, Code 2018, is amended by adding the
 following new subsection:
    NEW SUBSECTION.  5A.  For an applicant for employment in the
 executive branch to disclose in the application for employment
 whether the applicant has filed a registration statement
 pursuant to the federal Foreign Agents Registration Act of
 1938, as amended, 22 U.S.C. {611 et seq.
    Sec. 7.  NEW SECTION.  68B.2C  Prohibited outside employment
 and activities ==== agents of foreign principals.
    Officials and state employees shall not engage in any
 outside employment or activity that requires the person to
 register under the federal Foreign Agents Registration Act, 22
 U.S.C. {611 et seq., as amended.


                                                                                            CHARLES SCHNEIDE


                                                                                            LINDA UPMEYER


                                                                                            W. CHARLES SMITH


                                                                                            KIM REYNOLDS

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