Virginia Senate Bill 777 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 29 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-11 - Left in Rules
Pending: Senate Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; gift-free legislator; penalty. Provides that a member of the General Assembly may identify himself as a gift-free legislator by selecting such an option on the Statement of Economic Interests, thereby indicating that he will not accept a gift of any value offered or given to him for the six-month period immediately following the submission deadline of the Statement of Economic Interests he is filing. The bill permits a legislator who identifies himself as a gift-free legislator to decide at a later date to accept a gift, so long as it is not prohibited by law and he complies with the applicable disclosure requirements. However, he shall not be permitted to select such option on the Statement next filed. The bill requires the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council to prepare a list of those who identify themselves as gift-free legislators and provide that list to the Secretary of the Commonwealth for distribution to lobbyists and to the Clerks of the House of Delegates and the Senate.

General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; gift-free legislator, penalty.

Sen. Stephen Newman [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-11	Senate	Left in Rules
2015-02-02	Senate	Assigned Rules sub: Ethics and Conflict of Interest
2014-12-29	Senate	Referred to Committee on Rules
2014-12-29	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100941D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	425	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+SB777
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB777+hil