HLS 16RS-15 ORIGINAL
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 143
BY REPRESENTATIVE GREGORY MILLER
ETHICS/FINANCIAL DISCLOS: Provides relative to the term "parcel" in the Code of
Governmental Ethics relative to personal financial disclosure
1 AN ACT
2To enact R.S. 42:1124(G)(3) and 1124.2(G)(4), relative to personal financial disclosure; to
3 provide for the meaning of "parcel" for the purposes of personal financial disclosure;
4 and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 42:1124(G)(3) and 1124.2(G)(4) are hereby enacted to read as
7follows:
8 §1124. Financial disclosure; statewide elected officials; certain public servants
9 * * *
10 G. For purposes of this Section, the following words shall have the following
11 meanings:
12 * * *
13 (3) "Parcel" shall mean one lot or parcel of ground, or two or more
14 contiguous lots or parcels of ground assessed together by the assessor to the same
15 owner or owners without distinguishing the valuation of each lot or parcel separately.
16 * * *
17 §1124.2. Financial disclosure; certain elected officials; members of certain boards
18 and commissions; ethics administrator
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions. HLS 16RS-15 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 143
1 G. For purposes of this Section, the following words shall have the following
2 meanings:
3 * * *
4 (4) "Parcel" shall mean one lot or parcel of ground, or two or more
5 contiguous lots or parcels of ground assessed together by the assessor to the same
6 owner or owners without distinguishing the valuation of each lot or parcel separately.
7 * * *
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 143 Original 2016 Regular Session Gregory Miller
Abstract: Provides for a definition of the term "parcel" relative to the disclosure of parcels
of immovable property on the Tier 1 and Tier 2 personal financial disclosure
statements.
Present law (ethics code--R.S. 42:1124, 1124.2, 1124.2.1, and 1124.3-Tiers 1, 2, 2.1, and 3)
requires all elected officials and certain other specified officials and board and commission
members to file a financial disclosure statement by May 15
th
of each year during which the
person holds public office or position and by May 15
th
of the year following the termination
of the holding of such office. Present law provides some exceptions. Present law (Election
Code/Campaign Finance Disclosure Act–R.S. 18:1495.7) further requires any person who
becomes a candidate for an office for which the holder of the office is required to file
financial disclosure statements pursuant to present law (Code of Governmental Ethics–R.S.
42:1124, 1124.2, or 1124.3) to file a financial disclosure statement as required by present
law for the office for which he is a candidate. Present law requires each such statement to
include certain specified information for the entire preceding calendar year, with a limited
exception.
Present law (R.S. 42:1124 and 1124.2–Tiers 1 and 2) requires a brief description, fair market
value or, use value, as determined by the assessor for purposes of ad valorem taxes, the
location by state and parish or county, of each parcel of immovable property in which the
individual or spouse, either individually or collectively, has an interest, provided that the
value of the interest the individual or spouse, either individually or collectively, has in the
parcel of immovable property exceeds $2,000.
Proposed law retains present law and provides that the term "parcel" means one lot or parcel
of ground, or two or more contiguous lots or parcels of ground assessed together by the
assessor to the same owner or owners without distinguishing the valuation of each lot or
parcel separately.
(Adds R.S. 42:1124(G)(3) and 1124.2(G)(4))
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