Ch. 360                                   2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 360
(House Bill 608)

AN ACT concerning

Ethics - Financial Disclosure Statements - Sources of Earned Income

FOR the purpose of providing that under the Maryland Public Ethics Law a certain
financial disclosure statement may not be required to include a listing of a
minor child's employment or business entities of which the child is sole or partial
owner, except under certain circumstances; clarifying that a certain financial
disclosure statement is required to include the name and address of each place
of secondary employment of certain individuals; and generally relating to
financial disclosure statements under the Maryland Public Ethics Law.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Government
Section 15-607(i)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1999 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

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

Article - State Government

15-607.

(i) (1) [The] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS
SUBSECTION, THE statement Shall include a schedule listing the name and address of
each:

[(1)] (I) place of salaried employment, INCLUDING SECONDARY
EMPLOYMENT, of the individual or a member of the individual's immediate family at
any time during the applicable period; and

[(2)] (II) business entity of which the individual or a member of the
individual's immediate family was a sole or partial owner, and from which the
individual or family member received earned income, at any time during the
applicable period.

(2) THE STATEMENT MAY NOT INCLUDE A LISTING OF A MINOR CHILD'S
EMPLOYMENT OR BUSINESS ENTITIES OF WHICH THE CHILD IS SOLE OR PARTIAL
OWNER UNLESS THE PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT OR THE BUSINESS ENTITY:

(I)      IS SUBJECT TO THE REGULATION OR AUTHORITY OF THE
AGENCY THAT EMPLOYS THE INDIVIDUAL; OR

(II)     HAS CONTRACTS IN EXCESS OF $10,000 WITH THE AGENCY
THAT EMPLOYS THE INDIVIDUAL.

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