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HF 2016Died when the session ended · January 9, 2024

Relating to permissible gifts offered to, accepted, or received by public officials, public employees, candidates, and certain family members

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Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 9, 2024
  2. Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
  3. Next: House committee
  4. Next: Passes the House
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

Current law generally prohibits public officials, public employees, candidates, and members of such persons’ immediate family from receiving gifts from restricted donors. However, certain limited exceptions are provided, and such persons may receive as a gift, among other things, nonmonetary items with a value of $3 or less from any one restricted donor during one calendar day. Similarly, unless otherwise provided in Code, an organization or association which has as one of its purposes the encouragement of the passage, defeat, introduction, or modification of legislation is prohibited from giving, and a member of the general assembly is prohibited from receiving food, beverages, registration, or scheduled entertainment with a per person value in excess of $3.

Read the full explanation

This bill increases the value for permitted gifts described in the bill from $3 a day to $20 a week.22 is guilty of a serious misdemeanor punishable by confinement for no more than one year and a fine of at least $430 but not more than $2,560. In addition, a person subject to the rules of ethics of either legislative chamber may be called before the applicable ethics committee and could be censured, reprimanded, suspended, dismissed, or expelled from the person’s position or otherwise sanctioned.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§68B.22

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works

Lobbying

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