Bills › 90th General Assembly
Relating to permissible gifts offered to, accepted, or received by public officials, public employees, candidates, and certain family members
Topics:State government
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 9, 2024
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- 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
AI summary Public officials, candidates, and their families are currently limited in the value of gifts they can receive from certain donors. This change would increase that gift limit from $3 per day to $20 per week. It also raises the limit for food, drinks, and entertainment provided by certain organizations.1
Read the official explanation
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. 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.