Loading chat...

AZ SB1060

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/14/2014

Primary Sponsor

Michele Reagan

Click for details

Origin

Senate

Fifty-first Legislature - Second Regular Session (2014)

AI Summary

  • Prohibits principals, lobbyists, and public bodies from providing entertainment expenditures to state officers, state employees, and certain local officials, with entertainment now defined to include admission to sporting or cultural events.

  • Removes prior exceptions that allowed entertainment expenditures in connection with special events and incidental to speaking engagements, making such entertainment unlawful.

  • Clarifies that the entertainment ban does not apply to employees of school districts, community college districts, and Arizona Board of Regents institutions when attending sporting or cultural events at facilities owned or operated by those institutions.

  • Modifies the definition of "speaking engagement" to exclude entertainment expenditures, separating entertainment from other covered expenses like food, beverage, lodging, and travel.

  • Applies the entertainment restrictions to special events for legislators by prohibiting expenditures for athletic events or entertainment, even when all legislature members are invited.

Legislative Description

Lobbying; sports tickets; special events

Last Action

Referred to Senate RULES Committee

1/23/2014

Full Bill Text

No bill text available