SB 401: State employees and officers: conflicts of interest.

The Political Reform Act of 1974 regulates conflicts of interest of public officials and requires specified elected and appointed officers at the state and local levels of government to disclose specified financial interests by filing periodic statements of economic interests.

Existing law also prohibits a state officer or employee from engaging in any employment, activity, or enterprise that is clearly inconsistent, incompatible, in conflict with, or inimical to their duties as a state officer or employee and requires each appointing power to determine those activities. If those provisions are in conflict with a memorandum of understanding, existing law provides that the memorandum of understanding is controlling, except as specified.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation relating to conflicts of interest for all state employees and officers, as specified.