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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 68B.7, Code 1995, is amended by adding
1 2 the following new unnumbered paragraphs:
1 3 NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH. A statewide elected official
1 4 shall not, within a period of two years after the termination
1 5 of service, act as the attorney for any client before the
1 6 agency of state government in which the official served or for
1 7 which the official provided substantial administrative
1 8 services. For purposes of this paragraph, "substantial
1 9 administrative services" includes, but is not limited to,
1 10 appointment authority over officials or employees of an
1 11 agency, other than the agency in which the official serves,
1 12 and assignment of personnel from the agency in which the
1 13 official serves for purposes of providing legal services to an
1 14 agency.
1 15 NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH. A state employee who is employed
1 16 by a statewide elected official, but who is not employed under
1 17 the merit system established under chapter 19A, shall not,
1 18 within a period of two years after the termination of
1 19 employment, act as the attorney for any client before the
1 20 agency of state government in which the employee was employed
1 21 or for which the employee provided substantial administrative
1 22 services. For purposes of this paragraph, "substantial
1 23 administrative services" includes, but is not limited to, the
1 24 provision of legal services for an agency other than the
1 25 agency which employs the state employee.
1 26 NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH. A member of the general assembly
1 27 shall not act as the attorney for any client before the
1 28 general assembly or any committee, agency, or official within
1 29 the general assembly. A legislative employee shall not act as
1 30 the attorney for any client before the general assembly or any
1 31 committee, agency, or official within the general assembly.
1 32 EXPLANATION
1 33 This bill prohibits legislators and full-time legislative
1 34 employees from acting as the attorney for clients before the
1 35 general assembly. In addition, statewide elected officials
2 1 and their employees, who are not employed under the merit
2 2 system, are prohibited for a period of two years from acting
2 3 as the attorney for clients before agencies in which they
2 4 served or were employed or for which they provided substantial
2 5 administrative services. "Substantial administrative
2 6 services" is defined, for statewide elected officials, as the
2 7 appointment authority over officials or employees of an agency
2 8 and the assignment of personnel from the agency in which the
2 9 official serves for purposes of providing legal services to an
2 10 agency. The term is defined, for statewide elected officials'
2 11 employees, as providing legal services for an agency other
2 12 than the agency in which the state employee is employed.
2 13 Statewide elected officials include the governor, lieutenant
2 14 governor, secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of
2 15 state, secretary of agriculture, and attorney general of the
2 16 state of Iowa.
2 17 LSB 1003YH 76
2 18 lh/sc/14
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