No. CS/SB 572
Filed under Local Government.
Ethics for Public Officers and Employees; Revising the definition of the term “relative” to include foster parents and foster children; providing that specified provisions do not prohibit a board, council, commission, or collegial body from appointing, employing, promoting, or advancing elected public officials who are related to a leadership position on the same board, council, commission, or collegial body, etc.
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AI-GENERATEDThis bill has been analysed, but the summary did not pass verification and was withheld. The provisions below did.
AIBroadens the scope of the conflict-of-interest law, meaning that hiring or promoting a foster parent or foster child now triggers the same restrictions as hiring a biological relative.
AIRemoves a specific ban on nepotism, permitting a board to place a relative in a leadership role if that relative is also an elected official on the same board.
AINarrows the definition of relative by deleting the clause that included any person living in the same household, regardless of relationship.