Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking all after the enacting clause and inserting:
/ SECTION 1. Article 11, Chapter 13, Title 8 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 8-13-1115.
(A) All candidates for public office,
must file a statement of economic interests online with the
State Ethics Commission no later than April fifteenth of each
election year, or fifteen days after becoming a candidate,
whichever comes last.
(B) An individual, who
becomes a candidate other than by filing, must file a statement
of economic interests online with the State Ethics Commission no
later than April fifteenth of each election year, or fifteen
days after becoming a candidate, whichever comes last."
SECTION 2. Section 8-13-365 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 190 of 2010, is further amended to read:
"Section 8-13-365.(A)
The commission State Ethics
Commission shall establish a system of electronic filing for
all disclosures and reports required pursuant to Chapter 13,
Title 8 and Chapter 17, Title 2 from all persons and entities
subject to its jurisdiction. These disclosures and reports must
be filed using an Internet-based filing system as prescribed by
the commission. Reports and disclosures filed with the
Ethics Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives for
legislative offices must be in a format such that these filings
can be forwarded to the State Ethics Commission using an
Internet-based system. State Ethics Commission,
which shall forward these reports to the appropriate supervisory
office. The information contained in the reports and
disclosure forms, with the exception of social security numbers,
campaign bank account numbers, and tax ID numbers, must be
publicly accessible, searchable, and transferable.
(B) The Ethics
Commission must submit to the General Assembly a report no later
than one year after implementation of subsection (A), concerning
the effectiveness of mandatory electronic filing, and must make
recommendations as to the implementation of mandatory filing for
all other candidates and entities. Notwithstanding
another provision of law, a disclosure form filed pursuant to
this section must be deemed to satisfy any other filing
requirement required by law."
SECTION 3. Section 8-13-1110 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 114 of 2007, is further amended to read:
"Section 8-13-1110.
(A) No public official,
regardless of compensation, and no public member, or
public employee as designated in subsection (B) may take the
oath of office or enter upon his official responsibilities
unless he has filed a statement of economic interests in
accordance with the provisions of this chapter with the
appropriate supervisory office. The State Ethics
Commission must furnish the website on which all statements of
economic interests must be filed. Except for the reporting of
gifts, a candidate who is not an incumbent public official and
who must otherwise file a statement of economic interests is
subject to the same disclosure requirements as an incumbent
public official. If a public official, public member, or
public employee referred to in this section has no economic
interests to disclose, he shall nevertheless file a statement of
inactivity to that effect with the appropriate
supervisory office. All disclosure statements are
matters of public record open to inspection upon request.
(B) Each of the
following public officials, public members, and public employees
must file a statement of economic interests with the appropriate
supervisory office, unless otherwise provided All
public officials must file a Statement of Economic Interests
online with the State Ethics Commission no later than April
fifteenth of each calendar year, or fifteen days after being
appointed, whichever comes last. This includes elected
officials, and the following:
(1)
a person appointed to fill the unexpired term of an
elective office;
(2)
a salaried member of a state board, commission, or agency;
(3)
the chief administrative official, or
employee, and the deputy or assistant administrative
official, or employee, or director of a division,
institution, or facility of any an
agency or department of state government;
(4)
the city administrator, city manager, or chief municipal
administrative official, or employee, by whatever title;
(5)
the county manager, county administrator, county
supervisor, or chief county administrative official, or
employee, by whatever title;
(6)
the chief administrative official, or employee of
each political subdivision including, but not limited to, school
districts, libraries, regional planning councils, airport
commissions, hospitals, community action agencies, water and
sewer districts, and development commissions;
(7)
a school district and county superintendent of education;
(8)
a school district board member and a county board of
education member;
(9)
the chief finance official, or employee, and
the chief purchasing official, or employee, of
each agency, institution, or facility of state government, and
of each county, municipality, or other political subdivision
including, but not limited to, those named in item (6);
(10)
a public official;
(11)
a public member who serves on a state board, commission,
or council; and
(12)
Department of Transportation District Engineering
Administrators."
SECTION 4. Section 8-13-1356 of the 1976 Code is repealed.
SECTION 5. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor. /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.