Bill Text: VA HB2301 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Conflict of Interests Acts, State & Local Government & General Assembly; disclosure of income.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-01 - House: Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote [HB2301 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2011-HB2301-Introduced.html
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11100722D Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That §§2.2-3117 and 30-111 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows: §2.2-3117. Disclosure form. The disclosure form to be used for filings required by § 2.2-3114 A and D, and §2.2-3115 A and D shall be substantially as follows:
DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATORY MATERIAL. "Business" means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, association, trust or foundation, or any other individual or entity carrying on a business or profession, whether or not for profit. "Close financial association" means an association in which the person filing shares significant financial involvement with an individual and the filer would reasonably be expected to be aware of the individual's business activities and would have access to the necessary records either directly or through the individual. "Close financial association" does not mean an association based on (i) the receipt of retirement benefits or deferred compensation from a business by which the person filing this statement is no longer employed, or (ii) the receipt of compensation for work performed by the person filing as an independent contractor of a business that represents an entity before any state governmental agency when the person filing has had no communications with the state governmental agency. "Contingent liability" means a liability that is not presently fixed or determined, but may become fixed or determined in the future with the occurrence of some certain event. "Dependent" means any person, whether or not related by blood or marriage, who receives from the officer or employee, or provides to the officer or employee, more than one-half of his financial support. "Gift" means any gratuity, favor, discount, entertainment, hospitality, loan, forbearance, or other item having monetary value. It includes services as well as gifts of transportation, local travel, lodgings and meals, whether provided in-kind, by purchase of a ticket, payment in advance or reimbursement after the expense has been incurred. "Gift" shall not include any offer of a ticket or other admission or pass unless the ticket, admission, or pass is used. "Gift" shall not include honorary degrees and presents from relatives. "Relative" means the donee's spouse, child, uncle, aunt, niece, or nephew; a person to whom the donee is engaged to be married; the donee's or his spouse's parent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, or sister; or the donee's brother's or sister's spouse. "Immediate family" means (i) a spouse and (ii) any other person residing in the same household as the officer or employee, who is a dependent of the officer or employee or of whom the officer or employee is a dependent. TRUST. If you or your immediate family, separately or together, are the only beneficiaries of a trust, treat the trust's assets as if you own them directly. If you or your immediate family has a proportional interest in a trust, treat that proportion of the trust's assets as if you own them directly. For example, if you and your immediate family have a one-third interest in a trust, complete your Statement as if you own one-third of each of the trust's assets. If you or a member of your immediate family created a trust and can revoke it without the beneficiaries' consent, treat its assets as if you own them directly. REPORT TO THE BEST OF INFORMATION AND BELIEF. Information required on this Statement must be provided on the basis of the best knowledge, information and belief of the individual filing the Statement as of the date of this report unless otherwise stated. COMPLETE ITEMS 1 THROUGH 10. REFER TO SCHEDULES ONLY IF DIRECTED. You may attach additional explanatory information. 1. Offices and Directorships. Are you or a member of your immediate family a paid officer or paid director of a business? EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule A. 2. Personal Liabilities. Do you or a member of your immediate family owe more than $10,000 to any one creditor including contingent liabilities? (Exclude debts to any government and loans secured by recorded liens on property at least equal in value to the loan.) EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule B. 3. Securities. Do you or a member of your immediate family, directly or indirectly, separately or together, own securities valued in excess of $10,000 invested in one business? Account for mutual funds, limited partnerships and trusts. EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule C. 4. Payments for Talks, Meetings, and Publications. During the past 12 months did you receive lodging, transportation, money, or anything else of value with a combined value exceeding $200 for a single talk, meeting, or published work in your capacity as an officer or employee of your agency? EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule D. 5. Gifts. During the past 12 months did a business, government, or individual other than a relative or personal friend (i) furnish you with any gift or entertainment at a single event, and the value received by you exceeded $50 in value or (ii) furnish you with gifts or entertainment in any combination and the value received by you exceeded $100 in total value; and for which you neither paid nor rendered services in exchange? Account for entertainment events only if the average value per person attending the event exceeded $50 in value. Account for all business entertainment (except if related to your private profession or occupation) even if unrelated to your official duties. EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule E. 6. Salary and Wages. List each employer that pays you or a member of your immediate family salary or wages in excess of $10,000 annually. (Exclude state or local government or advisory agencies.) If no reportable salary or wages, check here / / . .......................................................................... .......................................................................... .......................................................................... 7. Business Interests. Do you or a member of your immediate family, separately or together, operate your own business, or own or control an interest in excess of $10,000 in a business? EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule F. 8. Payments for Representation and Other Services. 8A. Did you represent, excluding activity defined as lobbying in §2.2-419, any businesses before any state governmental agencies, excluding courts or judges, for which you received total compensation during the past 12 months in excess of $1,000, excluding compensation for other services to such businesses and representation consisting solely of the filing of mandatory papers and subsequent representation regarding the mandatory papers? (Officers and employees of local governmental and advisory agencies do NOT need to answer this question or complete Schedule G-1.) EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule G-1. 8B. Subject to the same exceptions as in 8A, did persons with whom you have a close financial association (partners, associates or others) represent, excluding activity defined as lobbying in §2.2-419, any businesses before any state governmental agency for which total compensation was received during the past 12 months in excess of $1,000? (Officers and employees of local governmental and advisory agencies do NOT need to answer this question or complete Schedule G-2.) EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule G-2. 8C. Did you or persons with whom you have a close financial association furnish services to businesses operating in Virginia pursuant to an agreement between you and such businesses, or between persons with whom you have a close financial association and such businesses for which total compensation in excess of $1,000 was received during the past 12 months? EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule G-3. 8D. Did you, your employer, a member of your immediate family, a business for which you or a member of your family is a paid officer or director, or persons with whom you have a close financial association receive total compensation in excess of $1,000 during the past 12 months for any activity undertaken specifically intended to influence public policy or public opinion in the Commonwealth or elsewhere? EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule G-4. 9. Real Estate. 9A. State Officers and Employees. Do you or a member of your immediate family hold an interest, including a partnership interest, valued at $10,000 or more in real property (other than your principal residence) for which you have not already listed the full address on Schedule F? Account for real estate held in trust. EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule H-1. 9B. Local Officers and Employees. Do you or a member of your immediate family hold an interest, including a partnership interest, or option, easement, or land contract, valued at $10,000 or more in real property (other than your principal residence) for which you have not already listed the full address on Schedule F? Account for real estate held in trust. EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule H-2. 10. Real Estate Contracts with Governmental Agencies. Do you or a member of your immediate family hold an interest valued at more than $10,000 in real estate, including a corporate, partnership, or trust interest, option, easement, or land contract, which real estate is the subject of a contract, whether pending or completed within the past 12 months, with a governmental agency? If the real estate contract provides for the leasing of the property to a governmental agency, do you or a member of your immediate family hold an interest in the real estate valued at more than $1,000? Account for all such contracts whether or not your interest is reported in Schedule F, H-1, or H-2. This requirement to disclose an interest in a lease does not apply to an interest derived through an ownership interest in a business unless the ownership interest exceeds three percent of the total equity of the business. EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule I. Statements of Economic Interests are open for public inspection. AFFIRMATION BY ALL FILERS. I swear or affirm that the foregoing information is full, true and correct to the best of my knowledge.
SCHEDULE A - OFFICES AND DIRECTORSHIPS. Identify each business of which you or a member of your immediate family is a paid officer or paid director. ___________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE B - PERSONAL LIABILITIES. Report personal liability by checking each category. Report only debts in excess of $10,000. Do not report debts to any government. Do not report loans secured by recorded liens on property at least equal in value to the loan. Report contingent liabilities below and indicate which debts are contingent. 1. My personal debts are as follows: _______________________________________________________________________ 2. The personal debts of the members of my immediate family are as follows: _______________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE C - SECURITIES.
Identify each business or Virginia governmental entity in which you or a member of your immediate family, directly or indirectly, separately or together, own securities valued in excess of $10,000. Name each entity and type of security individually. Do not list U.S. Bonds or other government securities not issued by the Commonwealth of Virginia or its authorities, agencies, or local governments. Do not list organizations that do not do business in this Commonwealth, but most major businesses conduct business in Virginia. Account for securities held in trust. If no reportable securities, check here / /. ____________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE D - PAYMENTS FOR TALKS, MEETINGS, AND PUBLICATIONS. List each source from which you received during the past 12 months lodging, transportation, money, or any other thing of value (excluding meals or drinks coincident with a meeting) with combined value exceeding $200 for your presentation of a single talk, participation in one meeting, or publication of a work in your capacity as an officer or employee of your agency. List payments or reimbursements by an advisory or governmental agency only for meetings or travel outside the Commonwealth. List a payment even if you donated it to charity. Do not list information about a payment if you returned it within 60 days or if you received it from an employer already listed under Item 6 or from a source of income listed on Schedule F. If no payment must be listed, check here / / . __________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE E - GIFTS. List each business, governmental entity, or individual that, during the past 12 months, (i) furnished you with any gift or entertainment at a single event and the value received by you exceeded $50 in value, or (ii) furnished you with gifts or entertainment in any combination and the value received by you exceeded $100 in total value; and for which you neither paid nor rendered services in exchange. List each such gift or event. Do not list entertainment events unless the average value per person attending the event exceeded $50 in value. Do not list business entertainment related to your private profession or occupation. Do not list gifts or other things of value given by a relative or personal friend for reasons clearly unrelated to your public position. Do not list campaign contributions publicly reported as required by Chapter 9.3 (§24.2-945 et seq.) of Title 24.2 of the Code of Virginia. _____________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE F - BUSINESS INTERESTS. Complete this Schedule for each self-owned or family-owned business (including rental property, a farm, or consulting work), partnership, or corporation in which you or a member of your immediate family, separately or together, own an interest having a value in excess of $10,000. If the enterprise is owned or operated under a trade, partnership, or corporate name, list that name; otherwise, merely explain the nature of the enterprise. If rental property is owned or operated under a trade, partnership, or corporate name, list the name only; otherwise, give the address of each property. Account for business interests held in trust. ___________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE G-1 - PAYMENTS FOR REPRESENTATION BY YOU. List the businesses you represented, excluding activity defined as lobbying in §2.2-419, before any state governmental agency, excluding any court or judge, for which you received total compensation during the past 12 months in excess of $1,000, excluding compensation for other services to such businesses and representation consisting solely of the filing of mandatory papers and subsequent representation regarding the mandatory papers filed by you. Identify each business, the nature of the representation and the amount received by dollar category from each such business. You may state the type, rather than name, of the business if you are required by law not to reveal the name of the business represented by you. Only STATE officers and employees should complete this Schedule. _____________________________________________________________________ If you have received $250,001 or more from a single business within the reporting period, indicate the amount received, rounded to the nearest $10,000. Amount Received:______. SCHEDULE G-2 - PAYMENTS FOR REPRESENTATION BY ASSOCIATES. List the businesses that have been represented, excluding activity defined as lobbying in §2.2-419, before any state governmental agency, excluding any court or judge, by persons who are your partners, associates or others with whom you have a close financial association and who received total compensation in excess of $1,000 for such representation during the past 12 months, excluding representation consisting solely of the filing of mandatory papers and subsequent representation regarding the mandatory papers filed by your partners, associates or others with whom you have a close financial association. Identify such businesses by type and also name the state governmental agencies before which such person appeared on behalf of such businesses. Only STATE officers and employees should complete this Schedule. ______________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE G-3 - PAYMENTS FOR SERVICES GENERALLY. Indicate below types of businesses that operate in Virginia to which services were furnished by you or persons with whom you have a close financial association pursuant to an agreement between you and such businesses, or between persons with whom you have a close financial association and such businesses and for which total compensation in excess of $1,000 was received during the past 12 months. Identify opposite each category of businesses listed below (i) the type of business, (ii) the type of service rendered and (iii) the value by dollar category of the compensation received for all businesses falling within each category. ___________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE G-4 - PAYMENTS FOR ADVOCACY SERVICES. Identify each such entity or person who has paid such compensation, the nature of the representation, the recipient of the compensation, and the amount received by dollar category. _____________________________________________________________________ If you have received $250,001 or more from a single business within the reporting period, indicate the amount received, rounded to the nearest $10,000. Amount Received:______.
SCHEDULE H-1 - REAL ESTATE - STATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES. List real estate other than your principal residence in which you or a member of your immediate family holds an interest, including a partnership interest, option, easement, or land contract, valued at $10,000 or more. Each parcel shall be listed individually. _________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE H-2 - REAL ESTATE - LOCAL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES. List real estate other than your principal residence in which you or a member of your immediate family holds an interest, including a partnership interest or option, easement, or land contract, valued at $10,000 or more. Each parcel shall be listed individually. Also list the names of any co-owners of such property, if applicable. _________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE I - REAL ESTATE CONTRACTS WITH GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES. List all contracts, whether pending or completed within the past 12 months, with a governmental agency for the sale or exchange of real estate in which you or a member of your immediate family holds an interest, including a corporate, partnership or trust interest, option, easement, or land contract, valued at $10,000 or more. List all contracts with a governmental agency for the lease of real estate in which you or a member of your immediate family holds such an interest valued at $1,000 or more. This requirement to disclose an interest in a lease does not apply to an interest derived through an ownership interest in a business unless the ownership interest exceeds three percent of the total equity of the business. State officers and employees report contracts with state agencies. Local officers and employees report contracts with local agencies. _______________________________________________________________________ §30-111. Disclosure form. A. The disclosure form to be used for filings required by subsections A and B of §30-110 shall be substantially as follows:
"Business" means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, association, trust or foundation, or any other individual or entity carrying on a business or profession, whether or not for profit. "Close financial association" means an association in which the filer shares significant financial involvement with an individual and the filer would reasonably be expected to be aware of the individual's business activities and would have access to the necessary records either directly or through the individual. "Close financial association" does not mean an association based on (i) the receipt of retirement benefits or deferred compensation from a business by which the legislator is no longer employed, or (ii) the receipt of compensation for work performed by the legislator as an independent contractor of a business that represents an entity before any state governmental agency when the legislator has had no communications with the state governmental agency. "Contingent liability" means a liability that is not presently fixed or determined, but may become fixed or determined in the future with the occurrence of some certain event. "Dependent" means any person, whether or not related by blood or marriage, who receives from the legislator, or provides to the legislator, more than one-half of his financial support. "Gift" means any gratuity, favor, discount, entertainment, hospitality, loan, forbearance, or other item having monetary value. It includes services as well as gifts of transportation, local travel, lodgings and meals, whether provided in-kind, by purchase of a ticket, payment in advance or reimbursement after the expense has been incurred. "Gift" shall not include any offer of a ticket or other admission or pass unless the ticket, admission, or pass is used. "Gift" shall not include honorary degrees and presents from relatives. "Relative" means the donee's spouse, child, uncle, aunt, niece, or nephew; a person to whom the donee is engaged to be married; the donee's or his spouse's parent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, or sister; or the donee's brother's or sister's spouse. "Immediate family" means (i) a spouse and (ii) any other person residing in the same household as the legislator, who is a dependent of the legislator or of whom the legislator is a dependent. "Lobbyist relationship" means (i) an engagement, agreement, or representation that relates to legal services, consulting services, or public relations services, whether gratuitous or for compensation, between a member or member-elect and any person who is, or has been within the prior calendar year, registered as a lobbyist with the Secretary of the Commonwealth, or (ii) a greater than three percent ownership interest by a member or member- elect in a business that employs, or engages as an independent contractor, any person who is, or has been within the prior calendar year, registered as a lobbyist with the Secretary of the Commonwealth. The disclosure of a lobbyist relationship shall not (i) constitute a waiver of any attorney-client or other privilege, (ii) require a waiver of any attorney-client or other privilege for a third party, or (iii) be required where a member or member-elect is employed or engaged by a person and such person also employs or engages a person in a lobbyist relationship so long as the member or member-elect has no financial interest in the lobbyist relationship. TRUST. If you or your immediate family, separately or together, are the only beneficiaries of a trust, treat the trust's assets as if you own them directly. If you or your immediate family has a proportional interest in a trust, treat that proportion of the trust's assets as if you own them directly. For example, if you and your immediate family have a one-third interest in a trust, complete your Statement as if you own one-third of each of the trust's assets. If you or a member of your immediate family created a trust and can revoke it without the beneficiaries' consent, treat its assets as if you own them directly. REPORT TO THE BEST OF INFORMATION AND BELIEF. Information required on this Statement must be provided on the basis of the best knowledge, information and belief of the individual filing the Statement as of the date of this report unless otherwise stated. COMPLETE ITEMS 1 THROUGH 11. REFER TO SCHEDULES ONLY IF DIRECTED. You may attach additional explanatory information. 1. Offices and Directorships. Are you or a member of your immediate family a paid officer or paid director of a business? EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule A. 2. Personal Liabilities. Do you or a member of your immediate family owe more than $10,000 to any one creditor including contingent liabilities? (Exclude debts to any government and loans secured by recorded liens on property at least equal in value to the loan.) EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule B. 3. Securities. Do you or a member of your immediate family, directly or indirectly, separately or together, own securities valued in excess of $10,000 invested in one business? Account for mutual funds, limited partnerships and trusts. EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule C. 4. Payments for Talks, Meetings, and Publications. During the past 12 months did you receive lodging, transportation, money, or anything else of value with a combined value exceeding $200 for a single talk, meeting, or published work in your capacity as a legislator? Do not include payments and reimbursements from the Commonwealth for meetings attended in your capacity as a legislator; see Question 11 and Schedule D2 to report such meetings. EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule D. 5. Gifts. During the past 12 months did a business, government, or individual other than a relative or personal friend (i) furnish you with any gift or entertainment at a single event, and the value received by you exceeded $50 in value or (ii) furnish you with gifts or entertainment in any combination and the value received by you exceeded $100 in total value; and for which you neither paid nor rendered services in exchange? Account for entertainment events only if the average value per person attending the event exceeded $50 in value. Account for all business entertainment (except if related to your private profession or occupation) even if unrelated to your official duties. EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule E. 6. Salary and Wages. List each employer that pays you or a member of your immediate family salary or wages in excess of $10,000 annually. (Exclude any salary received as a member of the General Assembly pursuant to §30-19.11.) If no reportable salary or wages, check here / / . ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 7. Business Interests and Lobbyist Relationships. 7A. Do you or a member of your immediate family, separately or together, operate your own business, or own or control an interest in excess of $10,000 in a business? EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule F-1. 7B. Do you have a lobbyist relationship as that term is defined above? EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule F-2. 8. Payments for Representation and Other Services. 8A. Did you represent any businesses before any state governmental agencies, excluding courts or judges, for which you received total compensation during the past 12 months in excess of $1,000, excluding compensation for other services to such businesses and representation consisting solely of the filing of mandatory papers and subsequent representation regarding the mandatory papers? EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule G-1. 8B. Subject to the same exceptions as in 8A, did persons with whom you have a close financial association (partners, associates or others) represent any businesses before any state governmental agency for which total compensation was received during the past 12 months in excess of $1,000? EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule G-2. 8C. Did you or persons with whom you have a close financial association furnish services to businesses operating in Virginia, pursuant to an agreement between you and such businesses, or between persons with whom you have a close financial association and such businesses for which total compensation in excess of $1,000 was received during the past 12 months? Services reported under this provision shall not include services involving the representation of businesses that are reported under question 8A or 8B above. EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule G-3. 8D. Did you, your employer, a member of your immediate family, a business for which you or a member of your family is a paid officer or director, or persons with whom you have a close financial association receive total compensation in excess of $1,000 during the past 12 months for any activity undertaken specifically intended to influence public policy or public opinion in the Commonwealth or elsewhere? EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule G-4. 9. Real Estate. Do you or a member of your immediate family hold an interest, including a partnership interest, valued at $10,000 or more in real property (other than your principal residence) for which you have not already listed the full address on Schedule F? Account for real estate held in trust. EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule H. 10. Real Estate Contracts with State Governmental Agencies. Do you or a member of your immediate family hold an interest valued at more than $10,000 in real estate, including a corporate, partnership, or trust interest, option, easement, or land contract, which real estate is the subject of a contract, whether pending or completed within the past 12 months, with a state governmental agency? If the real estate contract provides for the leasing of the property to a state governmental agency, do you or a member of your immediate family hold an interest in the real estate, including a corporate, partnership, or trust interest, option, easement, or land contract valued at more than $1,000? Account for all such contracts whether or not your interest is reported in Schedule F or H. This requirement to disclose an interest in a lease does not apply to an interest derived through an ownership interest in a business unless the ownership interest exceeds three percent of the total equity of the business. EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule I. 11. Payments by the Commonwealth for Meetings. During the past 12 months did you receive lodging, transportation, money, or anything else of value with a combined value exceeding $200 from the Commonwealth for a single meeting attended out-of-state in your capacity as a legislator? Do not include reimbursements from the Commonwealth for meetings attended in the Commonwealth. EITHER check NO / / OR check YES / / and complete Schedule D-2. Statements of Economic Interests are open for public inspection. In accordance with the rules of the house in which I serve, if I receive a request that this disclosure statement be corrected, augmented, or revised in any respect, I hereby pledge that I shall respond promptly to the request. I understand that if a determination is made that the statement is insufficient, I will satisfy such request or be subjected to disciplinary action of my house. I swear or affirm that the foregoing information is full, true and correct to the best of my knowledge. Signature ________________________________ Commonwealth of Virginia ________ of ________ to wit: The foregoing disclosure form was acknowledged before me This ________ day of ____________ , 20____, by ______________ Notary Public My commission expires ________________________ (Return only if needed to complete Statement.) NAME ________________________________ SCHEDULE A - OFFICES AND DIRECTORSHIPS. Identify each business of which you or a member of your immediate family is a paid officer or paid director. _________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE B - PERSONAL LIABILITIES. Report personal liability by checking each category. Report only debts in excess of $10,000. Do not report debts to any government. Do not report loans secured by recorded liens on property at least equal in value to the loan. Report contingent liabilities below and indicate which debts are contingent. 1. My personal debts are as follows: __________________________________________________________________________ 2. The personal debts of the members of my immediate family are as follows: __________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE C - SECURITIES.
mutual funds, limited partnerships, certificates of deposit, and commodity futures contracts. money market funds, annuity contracts, and insurance policies. Identify each business or Virginia governmental entity in which you or a member of your immediate family, directly or indirectly, separately or together, own securities valued in excess of $10,000. Name each entity and type of security individually. Do not list U.S. Bonds or other government securities not issued by the Commonwealth of Virginia or its authorities, agencies, or local governments. Do not list organizations that do not do business in this Commonwealth, but most major businesses conduct business in Virginia. Account for securities held in trust. If no reportable securities, check here / / . __________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE D-1 - PAYMENTS FOR TALKS, MEETINGS, AND PUBLICATIONS. List each source from which you received during the past 12 months lodging, transportation, money, or any other thing of value (excluding meals or drinks coincident with a meeting) with a combined value exceeding $200 for your presentation of a single talk, participation in one meeting, or publication of a work in your capacity as a legislator. Do not list payments or reimbursements by the Commonwealth. (See Schedule D-2 for such payments or reimbursements.) List a payment even if you donated it to charity. Do not list information about a payment if you returned it within 60 days or if you received it from an employer already listed under Item 6 or from a source of income listed on Schedule F. If no payment must be listed, check here / / . __________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE D-2 - PAYMENTS BY THE COMMONWEALTH FOR MEETINGS. List each meeting for which the Commonwealth provided payments or reimbursements during the past 12 months to you for lodging, transportation, money, or any other thing of value (excluding meals or drinks coincident with a meeting) with a combined value exceeding $200 for your participation in your capacity as a legislator. Do not list payments or reimbursements by the Commonwealth for meetings or travel within the Commonwealth. If no payment must be listed, check here / / . __________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE E - GIFTS. List each business, governmental entity, or individual that, during the past 12 months, (i) furnished you with any gift or entertainment at a single event and the value received by you exceeded $50 in value, or (ii) furnished you with gifts or entertainment in any combination and the value received by you exceeded $100 in total value; and for which you neither paid nor rendered services in exchange. List each such gift or event. Do not list entertainment events unless the average value per person attending the event exceeded $50 in value. Do not list business entertainment related to your private profession or occupation. Do not list gifts or other things of value given by a relative or personal friend for reasons clearly unrelated to your public position. Do not list campaign contributions publicly reported as required by Chapter 9.3 (§24.2-945 et seq.) of Title 24.2 of the Code of Virginia. _________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE F-1 - BUSINESS INTERESTS. Complete this Schedule for each self-owned or family-owned business (including rental property, a farm, or consulting work), partnership, or corporation in which you or a member of your immediate family, separately or together, own an interest having a value in excess of $10,000. If the enterprise is owned or operated under a trade, partnership, or corporate name, list that name; otherwise, merely explain the nature of the enterprise. If rental property is owned or operated under a trade, partnership, or corporate name, list the name only; otherwise, give the address of each property. Account for business interests held in trust. _________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE F-2 - LOBBYIST RELATIONSHIPS AND PAYMENTS. Complete this Schedule for each lobbyist relationship with the following: (i) any person who is, or has been within the prior calendar year, registered as a lobbyist with the Secretary of the Commonwealth, or (ii) any business in which you have a greater than three percent ownership interest and that business employs, or engages as an independent contractor, any person who is, or has been within the prior calendar year, registered as a lobbyist with the Secretary of the Commonwealth. ___________________________________________________________________________ THE DISCLOSURE OF A LOBBYIST RELATIONSHIP SHALL NOT (I) CONSTITUTE A WAIVER OF ANY ATTORNEY-CLIENT OR OTHER PRIVILEGE, (II) REQUIRE A WAIVER OF ANY ATTORNEY-CLIENT OR OTHER PRIVILEGE FOR A THIRD PARTY, OR (III) BE REQUIRED WHERE A MEMBER OR MEMBER-ELECT IS EMPLOYED OR ENGAGED BY A PERSON AND SUCH PERSON ALSO EMPLOYS OR ENGAGES A PERSON IN A LOBBYIST RELATIONSHIP SO LONG AS THE MEMBER OR MEMBER-ELECT HAS NO FINANCIAL INTEREST IN THE LOBBYIST RELATIONSHIP. SCHEDULE G-1 - PAYMENTS FOR REPRESENTATION BY YOU. List the businesses you represented before any state governmental agency, excluding any court or judge, for which you received total compensation during the past 12 months in excess of $1,000, excluding compensation for other services to such businesses and representation consisting solely of the filing of mandatory papers and subsequent representation regarding the mandatory papers filed by you. Identify each business, the nature of the representation and the amount received by dollar category from each such business. You may state the type, rather than name, of the business if you are required by law not to reveal the name of the business represented by you. ______________________________________________________________________ If you have received $250,001 or more from a single business within the reporting period, indicate the amount received, rounded to the nearest $10,000. Amount Received: ______________. SCHEDULE G-2 - PAYMENTS FOR REPRESENTATION BY ASSOCIATES. List the businesses that have been represented before any state governmental agency, excluding any court or judge, by persons who are your partners, associates or others with whom you have a close financial association and who received total compensation in excess of $1,000 for such representation during the past 12 months, excluding representation consisting solely of the filing of mandatory papers and subsequent representation regarding the mandatory papers filed by your partners, associates or others with whom you have a close financial association. Identify such businesses by type and also name the state governmental agencies before which such person appeared on behalf of such businesses. ______________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE G-3 - PAYMENTS FOR OTHER SERVICES GENERALLY. Indicate below types of businesses that operate in Virginia to which services were furnished by you or persons with whom you have a close financial association pursuant to an agreement between you and such businesses, or between persons with whom you have a close financial association and such businesses and for which total compensation in excess of $1,000 was received during the past 12 months. Services reported in this Schedule shall not include services involving the representation of businesses that are reported in Schedule G-1 or G-2 above. Identify opposite each category of businesses listed below (i) the type of business, (ii) the type of service rendered and (iii) the value by dollar category of the compensation received for all businesses falling within each category. __________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE G-4 - PAYMENTS FOR ADVOCACY SERVICES. Identify each such entity or person who has paid such compensation, the nature of the representation, the recipient of the compensation, and the amount received by dollar category. ________________________________________________________________________ If you have received $250,001 or more from a single business within the reporting period, indicate the amount received, rounded to the nearest $10,000. Amount Received: ______________.
SCHEDULE H - REAL ESTATE. List real estate other than your principal residence in which you or a member of your immediate family holds an interest, including a partnership interest, option, easement, or land contract, valued at $10,000 or more. Each parcel must be listed individually. ________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE I - REAL ESTATE CONTRACTS WITH STATE GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES. List all contracts, whether pending or completed within the past 12 months, with a state governmental agency for the sale or exchange of real estate in which you or a member of your immediate family holds an interest, including a corporate, partnership or trust interest, option, easement, or land contract, valued at $10,000 or more. List all contracts with a state governmental agency for the lease of real estate in which you or a member of your immediate family holds such an interest valued at $1,000 or more. This requirement to disclose an interest in a lease does not apply to an interest derived through an ownership interest in a business unless the ownership interest exceeds three percent of the total equity of the business. _______________________________________________________________________ B. Any legislator who makes a knowing misstatement of a material fact on the Statement of Economic Interests shall be subject to disciplinary action for such violations by the house in which the legislator sits. C. In accordance with the rules of each house, the Statement of Economic Interests of all members of each house shall be reviewed. If a legislator's Statement is found to be inadequate as filed, the legislator shall be notified in writing and directed to file an amended Statement correcting the indicated deficiencies, and a time shall be set within which such amendment shall be filed. If the Statement of Economic Interests, in either its original or amended form, is found to be adequate as filed, the legislator's filing shall be deemed in full compliance with this section as to the information disclosed thereon. D. Ten percent of the membership of a house, on the basis of newly discovered facts, may in writing request the house in which those members sit, in accordance with the rules of that house, to review the Statement of Economic Interests of another member of that house in order to determine the adequacy of his filing. In accordance with the rules of each house, each Statement of Economic Interests shall be promptly reviewed, the adequacy of the filing determined, and notice given in writing to the legislator whose Statement is in issue. Should it be determined that the Statement requires correction, augmentation or revision, the legislator involved shall be directed to make the changes required within such time as shall be set under the rules of each house. If a legislator, after having been notified in writing in accordance with the rules of the house in which he sits that his Statement is inadequate as filed, fails to amend his Statement so as to come into compliance within the time limit set, he shall be subject to disciplinary action by the house in which he sits. No legislator shall vote on any question relating to his own Statement. |
