09 LC
14 0121S
The
House Committee on Governmental Affairs offers the following substitute to SB
70:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to campaign contributions under the "Ethics in Government
Act," so as to revise provisions relating to prohibitions against campaign
contributions by regulated entities to their elected regulators; to revise
provisions relating to contributions by officers and employees of regulated
entities; to require disclosure report identification of contributions by
officers and employees; to prohibit elected regulators from soliciting
contributions from officers and employees; to provide for related matters; to
repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Article
2 of Chapter 5 of Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to campaign contributions under the "Ethics in Government Act," is amended in
Code Section 21-5-30.1, relating to prohibited contributions by regulated
entities to elected executive officers or candidates, by revising subsection (d)
as follows:
"(d)
Nothing contained in this Code section shall be construed to prevent any person
who may be employed by a regulated entity, including a person in whose name a
license or lease is held,
or who is an
officer of a regulated entity from
voluntarily making a campaign contribution from that person's personal funds to
or on behalf of a person holding office as an elected executive officer
regulating such entity or to or on behalf of a candidate for the office of an
elected executive officer regulating such entity or to or on behalf of a
campaign committee of any such
candidate;
provided, however, that:
(1)
The elected executive officer or candidate receiving one or more campaign
contributions described in this subsection shall in his or her disclosure report
under Code Section 21-5-34 separately identify each contribution and the total
of contributions which he or she knows or should have reason to know are
described in this subsection;
(2)
It shall be unlawful for an elected executive officer to knowingly solicit a
campaign contribution described in this subsection; and
(3)
It shall be unlawful
and a
violation of this Code section for any
regulated entity or other person to require another by coercive action to make
any such contribution."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.