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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6848
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 3784
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT
ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADOPTION OF MUNICIPAL CONFLICT
OF INTEREST PROVISIONS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2025) (a) As used in this section, 1
(1) "municipality" means each town, city or borough, whether 2
consolidated or unconsolidated, and includes any district, and (2) 3
"district" has the same meaning as provided in section 7-324 of the 4
general statutes. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes 5
or any special act, municipal charter or ordinance, not later than October 6
1, 2026, each municipality shall adopt a conflict of interest provision for 7
its elected and appointed officials, officers and employees which shall 8
contain: (A) The municipality's definition of "conflict of interest" or the 9
model definition set forth in subsection (b) of this section, and (B) any 10
actions that are required to be taken by the municipality if a conflict of 11
interest is determined to exist, except that the provisions of this 12
subsection shall not apply to any municipality that has established a 13
conflict of interest policy prior to January 1, 2026. 14 Raised Bill No. 6848
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(b) For purposes of complying with the requirements of subsection 15
(a) of this section, a municipality may adopt the following model 16
definition of conflict of interest in lieu of creating its own definition: A 17
conflict of interest exists where an official, officer or employee believes 18
or expects that such official, officer or employee, or any person within 19
such official's, officer's or employee's immediate family, or any business 20
associate of such official, officer or employee, or any business by which 21
the official, officer or employee is employed, or any business with which 22
the official, officer or employee is associated, will derive a direct 23
monetary gain or suffer a direct monetary loss, as the case may be, by 24
reason of such official's, officer's or employee's official activity, but 25
excluding any official action taken by the official, officer or employee in 26
which any benefit or detriment is shared with a substantial segment of 27
the population of the municipality. 28
(c) Not later than January 15, 2027, each municipality shall submit a 29
notice to the Office of State Ethics, in a manner prescribed by the office, 30
certifying whether the municipality (1) has adopted a conflict of interest 31
provision in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this 32
section, or (2) is exempt from such requirement under subsection (a) of 33
this section. Any such notice shall include a copy of the conflict of 34
interest provision adopted by such municipality. The Office of State 35
Ethics shall publish a copy of each municipality's conflict of interest 36
provision submitted under this subsection on the office's Internet web 37
site. 38
(d) Not later than January 15, 2027, and as updated thereafter, each 39
municipality shall publish any conflict of interest provision adopted by 40
such municipality on its Internet web site in an easily accessible location. 41
If the conflict of interest provision is part of an established code of ethics 42
adopted by a municipality, the publication of the code of ethics on the 43
municipal Internet web site in an easily accessible location shall satisfy 44
the requirements of this subsection. If the municipality does not have an 45
Internet web site, the municipality shall make its conflict of interest 46
provision or code of ethics available to the public at the town or city 47
clerk's office. 48 Raised Bill No. 6848
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2025 New section
GAE Joint Favorable
PD Joint Favorable