Bill Text: PA HB385 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for restricted activities and for prohibited activities.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 30-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-18 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB385 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB385-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1140
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 385 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY CHRISTIANA, BOYD, CAUSER, CREIGHTON, CUTLER, DALLY, DENLINGER, FLECK, GRELL, GROVE, HARRIS, KAUFFMAN, MARSHALL, MENSCH, MOUL, MUSTIO, OBERLANDER, REICHLEY, ROAE, ROCK, ROHRER, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, SCHRODER, SIPTROTH, STERN, SWANGER, TALLMAN, TURZAI, VULAKOVICH AND YOUNGBLOOD, MARCH 18, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 18, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 65 (Public Officers) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, further providing for restricted
activities and for prohibited activities.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sections 1103 and 13A07 of Title 65 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended by adding
subsections to read:
§ 1103. Restricted activities.
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(k) Limitations on persons hired or appointed as public
employees or officials.--
(1) No individual who is hired as a public employee of
the Commonwealth may, within a period of two years after the
date of hiring or a period beginning with the date of hiring
and ending with the last day of the sitting Governor's term
of office, whichever is shorter, participate in a matter that
is directly and substantially related to any former employee
or former client, including any matter involving regulations
or contracts.
(2) No individual who is appointed as a public official
of the Commonwealth may, within a period of two years after
the date of appointment or a period beginning with the date
of appointment and ending with the last day of the sitting
Governor's term of office, whichever is shorter, participate
in a matter that is directly and substantially related to any
former employee or former client, including any matter
involving regulations or contracts.
(3) No individual who is subject to paragraph (1) or (2)
and who was a registered lobbyist under Chapter 13A (relating
to lobbying disclosure) within two years prior to hiring or
appointment may, within a period of two years after the date
of hiring or appointment or a period beginning with the date
of hiring or appointment and ending with the last day of the
sitting Governor's term of office, whichever is shorter,
participate in any matter on which the individual lobbied
within two years prior to hiring or appointment.
(4) No individual who is or was a registered lobbyist
under Chapter 13A may accept employment with an agency of the
Commonwealth that the person lobbied within a period of two
years prior to the date of hiring or appointment.
(5) No individual who is hired or appointed as a public
employee or public official of the Commonwealth may serve on
an evaluation committee formed under 62 Pa.C.S. § 513
(relating to competitive sealed proposals) to review
proposals submitted in response to requests for proposals if
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the evaluation committee will consider a proposal submitted
by a person who was a former employer or a former client of
the person within two years prior to the individual's hiring
or appointment.
§ 13A07. Prohibited activities.
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(g) Lobbying by former public officials and public employees
of the Commonwealth.--No former public official or public
employee of the Commonwealth shall lobby the agency with whom he
or she was associated for a period of two years after he or she
leaves the agency.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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