House Resolution 48 - Introduced

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  1  1                HOUSE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2                 BY  COMMITTEE ON ETHICS
  1  3                 (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 300)
  1  4    A Resolution amending the House code of ethics.
  1  5    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
  1  6 That Rule 12, paragraph c, of the House Code of
  1  7 Ethics, as adopted by the House of Representatives
  1  8 during the 2005 Session in House Resolution 7, is
  1  9 amended to read as follows:
  1 10    c.  Form and contents of complaint.  A complaint
  1 11 shall be in writing.
  1 12    Complaint forms shall be available from the chief
  1 13 clerk of the house, but a complaint shall not be
  1 14 rejected for failure to use the approved form if it
  1 15 complies with the requirements of these rules.  The
  1 16 complaint shall contain a certification made by the
  1 17 complainant, under penalty of perjury, that the facts
  1 18 stated in the complaint are true to the best of the
  1 19 complainant's knowledge.
  1 20    To be valid, a complaint shall allege all of the
  1 21 following:
  1 22    (1)  Facts, including the approximate date and
  1 23 location of any event, incident, or transaction that,
  1 24 that if true, establish a violation of a provision of
  1 25 chapter 68B of the Code, the house code of ethics, or
  1 26 house rules governing lobbyists for which penalties or
  1 27 other remedies are provided.
  1 28    (2)  That the conduct providing the basis for the
  1 29 complaint occurred within three years of the filing of
  1 30 the complaint.
  2  1    (3)  That the party charged with a violation is a
  2  2 member or employee of the house, a lobbyist, or a
  2  3 client of a lobbyist party subject to the jurisdiction
  2  4 of the ethics committee.
  2  5 LSB 3596HV 81
  2  6 tm:rj/gg/14