Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes employment regulations within the Board of Fisheries to prevent a conflict of interest

Highlights:

• Prohibits a public officer from doing the following (Sec. 1.b):

• Seeking other employment or contracts through the use or attempted use of official positions;

• Accepting, receiving, or soliciting compensation for the performance of official duties or responsibilities from a person other than the state;

• Using state time, property, equipment, or other facilities to benefit personal or financial interests;

• Taking or withhold official action in order to affect a matter in which the public officer has a personal or financial interest;

• Attempting to benefit a personal or financial interest through coercion of a subordinate or require another public officer to perform services for the private benefit of the public officer at any time; or

• Using or authorizing the use of state funds, facilities, equipment, services, or another government asset or resource for partisan political purposes.

• Requires a member of a board or commission who is involved in a matter that may result in a violation must  disclose the matter on the public record and in writing to the designated supervisor and to the attorney general (Sec. 2.a).

• Specifies if the supervisor or a majority of the members voting determine that a violation will exist if the member continues to participate, the member shall refrain from voting, deliberating, or participating in the matter (Sec. 2.a).

• Specifies if a member of the Board of Fisheries or the Board of Game discloses a personal or financial interest relating to the involvement of the member, or an immediate family member of that member, in a business or organization relating to fish or game resources, the member is not disqualified from deliberating or participating in the matter (Sec. 3.c).

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