Senate Bill No. 1039
Public Act No. 19-2
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E CONFIDENTIALITY OF STATEMENTS
OF FINANCIAL INTEREST.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 1-83 of the general statutes is
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from
passage):
(c) The statement of financial interests filed pursuant to this section
shall be a matter of public information, except (1) the names of any
dependent children residing in the household of the individual filing
such statement shall not be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act, as defined in section 1-200, and (2) the list of names,
filed in accordance with subparagraph (F) of subdivision (1) of
subsection (b) of this section shall be sealed and confidential and for
the use of the Office of State Ethics only after a complaint has been
filed under section 1-82 and such complaint has been determined by a
vote of the board to be of sufficient merit and gravity to justify the
unsealing of such list or lists and not open to public inspection unless
the respondent requests otherwise. If the board reports its findings to
the Chief State's Attorney in accordance with subsection (c) of section
1-88, the board shall turn over to the Chief State's Attorney such
relevant information contained in the statement as may be germane to Senate Bill No. 1039
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the specific violation or violations or a prosecutorial official may
subpoena such statement in a criminal action. Unless otherwise a
matter of public record, the Office of State Ethics shall not disclose to
the public any such subpoena which would be exempt from disclosure
by the issuing agency.
Sec. 2. Subsection (j) of section 4e-2 of the general statutes is
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from
passage):
(j) No employee of the State Contracting Standards Board shall hold
another state or municipal position. No nonclerical employee of the
board or any spouse, child, stepchild, parent or sibling of such
employee, shall be associated with an enterprise that does business
with the state. For purposes of this subsection, "associated with" means
"business with which he is associated", as defined in section 1-79. Each
member and employee of the State Contracting Standards Board shall
file, with the board and with the Office of State Ethics, a statement of
financial interests, as described in section 1-83, as amended by this act.
[Such] Except as provided in section 1-83, as amended by this act, such
statement shall be a public record. Such statements for the preceding
calendar year shall be filed with the Office of State Ethics, as required
by law, if such employee or member held such a position during the
preceding calendar year.
Approved: April 29, 2019