Bill Text: PA HB2055 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In ethics and financial disclosure, further providing for definitions and for restricted activities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-06 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB2055 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB2055-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2826
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2055 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY JOSEPHS, McGEEHAN, MUNDY, MURPHY AND STURLA, DECEMBER 6, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 6, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 65 (Public Officers) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in ethics and financial disclosure,
further providing for definitions and for restricted
activities.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1102 of Title 65 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a definition to read:
§ 1102. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter
shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the
meanings given to them in this section:
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"Detention services." Services which are provided:
(1) to a correctional institution, as defined in 61
Pa.C.S. § 102 (relating to definition); and
(2) for the benefit of an inmate, as defined in 61
Pa.C.S. § 102.
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Section 2. Section 1103(f) of Title 65 is amended to read:
§ 1103. Restricted activities.
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(f) Contract.--
(1) No public official or public employee or his spouse
or child or any business in which the person or his spouse or
child is associated shall enter into any contract valued at
$500 or more with the governmental body with which the public
official or public employee is associated or any subcontract
valued at $500 or more with any person who has been awarded a
contract with the governmental body with which the public
official or public employee is associated unless the contract
has been awarded through an open and public process,
including prior public notice and subsequent public
disclosure of all proposals considered and contracts awarded.
In such a case, the public official or public employee shall
not have any supervisory or overall responsibility for the
implementation or administration of the contract.
(2) This paragraph applies to a public official, a
public employee, the immediate family of a public official or
public employee and a domestic partner of a public official
or public employee. A person in which an individual subject
to this paragraph has a financial interest may not enter into
a contract to provide detention services to an individual
detained for determination of immigration status.
(3) Any contract or subcontract made in violation of
this subsection shall be voidable by a court of competent
jurisdiction if the suit is commenced within 90 days of the
making of the contract or subcontract.
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Section 3. The amendment of 65 Pa.C.S. § 1103(f) shall apply
to contracts entered into or renewed on or after the effective
date of this section.
Section 4. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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