Ch. 550

1995 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 550
(House Bill 362)

AN ACT concerning

Ethics Law - Gifts - Tickets to Sporting, Charitable, Cultural, or Political Events and
Trips Members of the General Assembly

FOR the purpose of limiting requiring a regulated lobbyist to report the gift of certain
tickets to certain sporting, charitable, cultural, or political events and admissions
provided to officials and employees, unless the event is sponsored by the donor
members of the General Assembly elected constitutional officers of the Legislative and
Executive Branches or their family members under certain circumstances; making it
unlawful for certain regulated lobbyists to make certain gifts to certain officials and
employees under certain circumstances; requiring members of the General
Assembly certain officials to obtain the prior written approval of notify the Joint
Committee on Legislative Ethics appropriate advisory body to attend before attending
certain meetings for which the expenses paid for the member official by a regulated
lobbyist are anticipated to exceed a certain amount; providing for the construction of
a certain provision of this Act; and generally relating to certain gift prohibitions and
limitations and certain reporting requirements applicable to regulated lobbyists under
the State Ethics Law.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Government
Section 15-505 and 15-704(d)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1993 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

(As enacted by Chapter____ (H.B. 12) of the Acts of the General Assembly of

1995)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - State Government

15-505.

(a)     (1) An official or employee may not solicit any gift.

(2) A REGULATED LOBBYIST DESCRIBED IN SUBSECTION (B) (4) OF THIS
SECTION MAY NOT KNOWINGLY MAKE A GIFT. DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY. TO AN
OFFICIAL OR EMPLOYEE THAT THE REGULATED LOBBYIST KNOWS OR HAS REASON
TO KNOW IS IN VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION.

(b)     Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, an official or employee
may not knowingly accept a gift, directly or indirectly, from an entity that the official or
employee knows or has reason to know:

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