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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 523

CHAPTER 523

(Senate Bill 404)

AN ACT concerning

Public Ethics - General Assembly - Representing Before

State Agencies

FOR the purpose of providing that disclosure need not be
made by a legislator if the legislator represents a

person in a quasi-judicial proceeding before the

Workmen's Compensation Commission; providing for the
confidentiality of the name of the person certain
information in a certain report required by the public
ethics law; and making stylistic changes.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 40A - Maryland Public Ethics Law

Section 3-102(f)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 40A - Maryland Public Ethics Law

3-102.

(f) (1) legislator who enters into any of the listed
transactions shall report in writing to the Committee and
the presiding officer of his branch of the legislature for
recordation with the Clerk of the House of Delegates or
Secretary of the Senate, at the times and in the manner
required by the Committee:

[(1)] (I) If representing a person for
compensation[,] before a State agency, [involving other
than] EXCEPT IN a judicial PROCEEDING or IN A
quasi-judicial [proceedings] PROCEEDING BEFORE THE WORKMEN'S
COMPENSATION COMMISSION, the name of the person represented,
the services performed, and the consideration; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, THAT THE COMMITTEE MAY ADOPT PROCEDURES TO KEEP
CONFIDENTIAL THE NAME OF THE PERSON REPRESENTED IF THAT
INFORMATION IS PRIVILEGED OR CONFIDENTIAL PURSUANT TO ANY
PROVISION OF LAW GOVERNING PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THAT STATE
AGENCY.