Bill Text: PA HB2171 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-13 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB2171 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB2171-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3085
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2171 Session of2012
INTRODUCED BY SACCONE, ROCK, SWANGER, TRUITT, MIRABITO AND MULLERY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 13, 2012
AN ACT
Amending Title 65 (Public Officers) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in ethics standards and financial
disclosure, further providing for definitions.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definition of "public official" in section
1102 of Title 65 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is
amended 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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"Public official." Any person elected by the public or
elected or appointed by a governmental body or an appointed
official in the executive, legislative or judicial branch of
this Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof, provided
that it shall not include members of advisory boards that have
no authority to expend public funds other than reimbursement for
personal expense or to otherwise exercise the power of the State
or any political subdivision thereof. The term shall include
full-time or part-time solicitor for a political subdivision.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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