Virginia House Bill 1598 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-02-04 - Incorporated by Courts of Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; prohibited gifts; civil penalty. Provides that, for purposes of the prohibition against acceptance of certain items that reasonably tend to influence official duties, any money, loan, gift, favor, service, or business or professional opportunity that is accepted by a member of the immediate family of an officer or employee of a state or local governmental or advisory agency or a member of the General Assembly shall be considered to have been accepted by the officer, employee, or member of the General Assembly if (i) such money, loan, gift, favor, service, or business or professional opportunity was accepted or retained with his knowledge and acquiescence and (ii) he knows or has reason to know that such money, loan, gift, favor, service, or business or professional opportunity was given to the member of his immediate family because of his official position. First violations of this provision are subject to the existing penalties of § 2.2-3124 and § 30-126, while a second or subsequent violation within a calendar year is subject to a civil penalty of no less than $2,500.

Conflict of Interests Act, State and Local Government, and General Assembly; prohibited gifts.

Del. Vivian Watts [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-04	House	Incorporated by Courts of Justice
2015-02-04	House	Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB2070-Gilbert) by voice vote
2015-01-13	House	Assigned Courts sub: Ethics
2015-01-08	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2015-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15101196D

HB2070 (Similar To) 2015-04-30 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0763)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3103	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3124	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+HB1598
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+HB1598+hil