Bill Text: PA HB2172 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: In ethics standards and financial disclosure, further providing for penalties.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-13 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB2172 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB2172-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  3086

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

2172

Session of

2012

  

  

INTRODUCED BY SACCONE, ROCK, SWANGER, TRUITT AND MULLERY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 13, 2012  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 65 (Public Officers) of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes, in ethics standards and financial

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disclosure, further providing for penalties.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 1109(f) of Title 65 of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

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§ 1109.  Penalties.

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(f)  Civil penalty.--In addition to any other civil remedy or

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criminal penalty provided for in this chapter, the commission

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may, after notice has been served in accordance with section

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1107(5) (relating to powers and duties of commission) and upon a

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majority vote of its members, levy a civil penalty upon any

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person subject to this chapter who fails to file a statement of

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financial interests in a timely manner or who files a deficient

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statement of financial interests, at a rate of not more than $25

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for each day such statement remains delinquent or deficient. The

 


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maximum penalty payable under this paragraph is [$250] $2,000.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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