Bill Text: NJ A2666 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits State officer or employee involved in awarding contract from holding employment with party awarded contract for two years after leaving State service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-08 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State Government Committee [A2666 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A2666-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman HERB CONAWAY, JR.
District 7 (Burlington)
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits State officer or employee involved in awarding contract from holding employment with party awarded contract for two years after leaving State service.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act imposing certain post-employment restrictions on certain State officers and employees having contracting responsibilities and amending P.L.1971, c.182.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 6 of P.L.1971, c.182 (C.52:13D-17) is amended to read as follows:
6. No State officer or employee or special State officer or employee, subsequent to the termination of his office or employment in any State agency, shall represent, appear for, negotiate on behalf of, or provide information not generally available to members of the public or services to, or agree to represent, appear for, negotiate on behalf of, or provide information not generally available to members of the public or services to, whether by himself or through any partnership, firm or corporation in which he has an interest or through any partner, officer or employee thereof, any person or party other than the State in connection with any cause, proceeding, application or other matter with respect to which such State officer or employee or special State officer or employee shall have made any investigation, rendered any ruling, given any opinion, or been otherwise substantially and directly involved at any time during the course of his office or employment.
In addition, no State officer or employee or special State officer or employee who was substantially and directly involved in the awarding of a State contract, shall, within two years next subsequent to the termination of State office or employment, hold employment with the party awarded that contract.
Any person who willfully violates the provisions of this section is a disorderly person, and shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000 or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both.
In addition, [for violations occurring after the effective date of P.L.2005, c.382,] any former State officer or employee or former special State officer or employee of a State agency in the Executive Branch found by the State Ethics Commission to have violated any of the provisions of this section shall be assessed a civil penalty of not less than $500 nor more than $10,000, which penalty may be collected in a summary proceeding pursuant to the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999," P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.).
(cf: P.L.2005, c.382, s.3)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill amends the "New Jersey Conflicts of Interest Law," N.J.S.A.52:13D-12 et seq., to prohibit a State officer or employee or special State officer or employee who was substantially and directly involved in the awarding of a State contract from holding employment with the party awarded that contract for two years after leaving State service. Its purpose is to eliminate the actuality or appearance of impropriety that may result when an officer or employee who was involved in the awarding of a State contract becomes employed by the party awarded that contract after leaving State service.
