HB253 Alabama 2011 Session

Updated Jan 10, 2026

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Mike Hubbard
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2011
Title: Ethics, public officers and employees and family members, clarification that prohibited offer, gift, solicitation, or receipt of anything pursuant to Section 36-25-7, Code of Alabama 1975, must be for corruptly influencing official action, Sec. 36-25-7 am'd.; Act 2010-764, 2010 1st Sp. Sess. am'd.
Description: Section 36-25-7, Code of Alabama 1975, as amended in the 2010 First Special Session by Act 2010-764, prohibits a person from offering or giving anything to a public official or public employee, as well as members of their households or family, for the purpose of influencing official action. Similarly, this section prohibits a public official or public employee, as well as members of their households or family, from soliciting or receiving anything for the purpose of influencing official action.
This bill would clarify that the prohibited offer, gift, solicitation, or receipt of anything, as contemplated in Section 36-25-7, Code of Alabama 1975, as amended, must be for the purpose of corruptly influencing official action and would define corruptly.
Subjects: Ethics

Indefinitely Postponed

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Ethics and Campaign Finance