2001 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL 1237

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

ANALYSIS

This bill establishes a conflict of interest policy for the appointment and involvement of persons to executive branch boards, commissions, advisory committees, and authorities, where the person has an interest in grants or contracts of the state agency.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Executive Branch; Conflicts of Interest. Amend the section heading of RSA 21-G:5-a to read as follows:

21-G:5-a Statements of Financial Interest for Board and Commission Members; Conflicts of Interest for Appointment.

2 New Paragraph; Conflicts of Interest. Amend RSA 21-G:5-a by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V. No person with a substantial involvement in an organization requesting funding, applying for a grant, or entering into a contract with any agency of the state shall be appointed to any executive branch board, commission, advisory committee, board of directors, or authority, whether regulatory or administrative. Persons with a substantial involvement shall include managers, board members, directors, employees, and volunteers of private organizations whether or not the organization is not for profit. No member of a board, commission, advisory committee, or authority shall participate in any way in the consideration, discussion, investigation, decision, and administration of an application for state funds where the member, the member's employer, or any person in the member's household, has any interest, financial or otherwise, direct or indirect, or which may appear to compromise the public purpose of the agency. All persons named by the appointing authority to be members of a board, commission, advisory committee, or authority shall disclose all organizations, affiliations, and other interests for which a conflict would exist. The appointing authority shall maintain a list of organizations, affiliations, and other conflicts of interest disclosed by each member. The lists shall be available to the public.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.