FREE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2429
(Reference to Senate engrossed House bill)
Page 1, between lines 1 and 2, insert:
"Section 1. Section 38-541, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
38-541. Definitions
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Business" includes any enterprise, organization, trade, occupation or profession, whether or not operated as a legal entity or for profit, including any business trust, corporation, partnership, joint venture or sole proprietorship.
2. "Compensation" means anything of value or advantage, present or prospective, including the forgiveness of debt.
3. "Controlled
business" means any business in which the public officer or any member of
his household has an ownership or beneficial interest, individually or
combined, amounting to more than a fifty per cent percent interest.
4. "Dependent
business" means any business in which the public officer or any member of
his household has an ownership or beneficial interest, individually or
combined, amounting to more than a ten per cent percent interest, and
during the preceding calendar year the business received from a single source
more than ten thousand dollars and more than fifty per
cent percent
of its gross income.
5. "Gift" includes any gratuity, special discount, favor, hospitality, service, economic opportunity, loan or other benefit received without equivalent consideration and not provided to members of the public at large. Gift does not include:
(a) travel-related expenses that are publicly reported pursuant to this article.
(b) political campaign contributions that are publicly reported pursuant to title 16, chapter 6.
6. "Local public officer" means a person holding an elective office of an incorporated city or town, a county or a groundwater replenishment district established under title 48, chapter 27.
7. "Member of household" means a public officer's spouse and any minor child of whom the public officer has legal custody.
8. "Public officer" means a member of the legislature and any judge of the court of appeals or the superior court, or a person holding an elective office the constituency of which embraces the entire geographical limits of this state. Members of Congress are not public officers as defined in this paragraph.
9. "travel-related expenses" means any costs associated with transportation, food, lodging and registration fees and other expenses directly related to travel to or from a meeting, conference or other event where the public officer is participating in the public officer's official capacity."
Renumber to conform
Page 3, line 18, after the period strike remainder of line
Strike lines 19 and 20
Between lines 32 and 33, insert:
"11. The name of each meeting, conference or other event where the public officer is participating in the public officer's official capacity if travel-related expenses of one thousand dollars or more were incurred on behalf of the public officer and the travel-related expenses are not paid by the public officer."
Amend title to conform