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Committee reviews amendments to ethics and public-service law including gift thresholds and website rules
Summary
A hearing was held on engrossed substitute Senate Bill 5143, an agency-request bill from the Legislative Ethics Board that would clarify the definition of "beneficial interest," raise certain gift thresholds, modify how election-year website and social-media activity is treated, and change penalties and cost provisions.
Engrossed substitute Senate Bill 5143, an agency-request bill from the Legislative Ethics Board, was presented to the State Government & Tribal Relations Committee for a public hearing. The bill would make multiple technical and substantive changes to the ethics and public-service laws.
Desiree Omley, OPR staff, gave the staff report. She told the committee the bill clarifies "beneficial interest" to mean a financial interest in a contract, sale, lease, purchase, or grant unless the officer's ownership in the entity is less than 10 percent. It also modifies the list of activities that are treated as within the normal and regular conduct of a legislative office, updates the monetary threshold for accepting…
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