House Bill No. 7325
Public Act No. 19-180
AN ACT CONCERNING ST ATE MARSHALS AND STA TEMENTS
OF FINANCIAL INTERESTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsections (a) and (b) of section 1-83 of the general
statutes are repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof
(Effective October 1, 2019):
(a) (1) All state-wide elected officers, members of the General
Assembly, department heads and their deputies, members or directors
of each quasi-public agency, members of the Investment Advisory
Council [, state marshals] and such members of the Executive
Department and such employees of quasi-public agencies as the
Governor shall require, shall file, under penalty of false statement, a
statement of financial interests for the preceding calendar year with the
Office of State Ethics on or before the May first next in any year in
which they hold such an office or position. If, in any year, May first
falls on a weekend or legal holiday, such statement shall be filed not
later than the next business day. Any such individual who leaves his
or her office or position shall file a statement of financial interests
covering that portion of the year during which such individual held
his or her office or position. The Office of State Ethics shall notify such
individuals of the requirements of this subsection not later than sixty House Bill No. 7325
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days after their departure from such office or position. Such
individuals shall file such statement not later than sixty days after
receipt of the notification.
(2) Each state agency, department, board and commission shall
develop and implement, in cooperation with the Office of State Ethics,
an ethics statement as it relates to the mission of the agency,
department, board or commission. The executive head of each such
agency, department, board or commission shall be directly responsible
for the development and enforcement of such ethics statement and
shall file a copy of such ethics statement with the Department of
Administrative Services and the Office of State Ethics.
(b) (1) The statement of financial interests, except as provided in
[subdivisions (2) and (3)] subdivision (2) of this subsection, shall
include the following information for the preceding calendar year in
regard to the individual required to file the statement and the
individual's spouse and dependent children residing in the
individual's household: (A) The names of all businesses with which
associated; (B) all sources of income, including the name of each
employer, with a description of the type of income received, in excess
of one thousand dollars, without specifying amounts of income; (C)
the name of securities in excess of five thousand dollars at fair market
value owned by such individual, spouse or dependent children or held
in the name of a corporation, partnership or trust for the benefit of
such individual, spouse or dependent children; (D) the existence of any
known blind trust and the names of the trustees; (E) all real property
and its location, whether owned by such individual, spouse or
dependent children or held in the name of a corporation, partnership
or trust for the benefit of such individual, spouse or dependent
children; (F) the names and addresses of creditors to whom the
individual, the individual's spouse or dependent children,
individually, owed debts of more than ten thousand dollars; (G) any House Bill No. 7325
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leases or contracts with the state or a quasi-public agency held or
entered into by the individual or a business with which he or she was
associated; and (H) the name of any of the following that is a partner
or owner of, or has a similar business affiliation with, the business
included under subparagraph (A) of this subdivision: (i) Any lobbyist,
(ii) any person the individual filing the statement knows or has reason
to know is doing business with or seeking to do business with the state
or is engaged in activities that are directly regulated by the department
or agency in which the individual is employed, or (iii) any business
with which such lobbyist or person is associated.
[(2) The statement of financial interests filed by state marshals shall
include only amounts and sources of income earned in their capacity
as state marshals.]
[(3)] (2) In the case of securities in excess of five thousand dollars at
fair market value held within (A) a retirement savings plan, as
described in Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any
subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States,
as amended from time to time, (B) a payroll deduction individual
retirement account plan, as described in Section 408 or 408A of said
Internal Revenue Code, (C) a governmental deferred compensation
plan, as described in Section 457 of said Internal Revenue Code, or (D)
an education savings plan, as described in Section 529 of said Internal
Revenue Code, the names of such securities shall not be required to be
disclosed in any statement of financial interests and only the name of
such retirement savings plan, individual retirement account plan,
deferred compensation plan or education savings plan holding such
securities shall be required.