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Senate Committee on Rules Subcommittee Ethics Legislation

Norment (Chairman), Edwards, Saslaw, Watkins, McDougle, Puckett, Marsden

Clerk: Susan Schaar, Hobie Lehman
Staff: Cheryl Jackson, Brenda Edwards
Date of Meeting: February 21, 2014
Time and Place: Upon Adjournment of Senate Rules Committee / Senate Room A

H.B. 1211 Conflicts of Interests Acts, State and Local Government & General Assembly; establishes Council.

Patron: Gilbert

State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council. Establishes the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council composed of 15 members: four appointments each by the Speaker of the House of Delegates, Senate Committee on Rules, and Governor; one designee of the Attorney General, one representative of the Virginia Association of Counties, and one representative of the Virginia Municipal League. The Council will elect its chairman and vice-chairman and choose its executive director. The Council will review and post online the disclosure forms filed by lobbyists and persons subject to the conflict of interests acts and provide formal opinions and informal advice, education, and training. The bill requires the filing of the disclosure forms twice a year. It provides that the Division of Legislative Services will staff the Council, and the Council will transmit complaints of conflict law violations to the ethics advisory panels of the House of Delegates and Senate. The bill prohibits tangible gifts with a value of more than $250 to certain officers and employees of state or local governmental or advisory agencies or to legislators from a lobbyist; lobbyist's principal; or a person, business, or organization who is a party to or seeking to become a party to certain governmental contracts. The bill also clarifies the distinction between gifts and other things of value received for travel, reduces a number of disclosure provision thresholds from $10,000 to $5,000, requires the disclosure of gifts to immediate family members, and provides that sales of individual securities sold during the reporting period must be disclosed if the proceeds from such sale exceeded $5,000. This bill incorporates HB 15 and HB 271. 

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 2.2-419, 2.2-423, 2.2-426, 2.2-428, 2.2-3101, 2.2-3104, 2.2-3114, 2.2-3115, 2.2-3116, 2.2-3117, 2.2-3118, 2.2-3118.1, 2.2-3121, 2.2-3131, 30-101, 30-110, 30-111, 30-112, 30-114, 30-117, 30-118, and 30-124 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 2.2-3103.1, by adding in Article 2 of Chapter 13 of Title 30 a section numbered 30-103.1, by adding in Chapter 13 of Title 30 an article numbered 6, consisting of sections numbered 30-129.1, 30-129.2, and 30-129.3, and by adding in Title 30 a chapter numbered 55, consisting of sections numbered 30-348 through 30-351, relating to the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; establishing the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council.

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