Instructions For Form 19 - General Assembly Financial Disclosure Statement printable pdf download

MARYLAND STATE ETHICS COMMISSION

45 Calvert Street, 3

Floor

Annapolis, Maryland 21401

410-260-7770 / 1-877-669-6085

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE STATEMENT INSTRUCTIONS (FORM 19)

(Pursuant to the Public Ethics Law, Md. Code Ann., General Provisions Article, Title 5,

“Maryland Public Ethics Law”)

These instructions pertain to members of the General Assembly only. Part–time members of

boards and commissions who earn no compensation or who are compensated less than 25% of a

Grade 16 base are to file Ethics Form 2. Judges, masters, examiners, commissioners, auditors,

referees, and candidates for nomination or election as judges in the judicial branch of State

Government file statements on forms issued by the Court of Appeals pursuant to §5-610 of the

Public Ethics Law. All other filers, including non-incumbent candidates for the General Assembly,

are to file Ethics Form 1.

A MESSAGE TO LEGISLATORS

Please read the instructions carefully and be sure to provide all information requested for each

interest you disclose on your statement.

The Ethics Law requires you to file electronically.

Paper filings will not be accepted

. The electronic form is programmed to display directions for

each schedule and to provide access to the glossary of terms throughout the process. It will also

direct you toward completion of all of the required information, hopefully making it unnecessary for

the Commission to contact you for additional information. When you initiate a new filing the

system will populate your new form with the prior year’s information, thus requiring you to enter only

changes that occurred during the new filing period.

Schedules C, D and E require knowledge regarding whether an entity does business with the

State. You will be able to access that information by way of a link from the financial disclosure program.

Schedule F requires knowledge regarding whether an entity does business with or is regulated by

the General Assembly. The Ethics Law requires each governmental unit to provide its financial

disclosure filers on or before January 15 of each year a list of entities that did business with the

governmental unit during the preceding calendar year.

Financial disclosure statements are public records that may be examined or copied by the

public. In completing your statement, you can indicate if you want the Commission to notify you of

the names and addresses of any persons who have examined or copied your statement. Please

ensure your e-mail address is up-to-date in your account information when you log in as that is

where the notification will be sent. Note that beginning January 1, 2019, the Law requires the

Commission to redact home address information disclosed in Schedule A, provided you identify

that address as your home address.

If you need assistance in completing the form, do not hesitate to call the office of the State

Ethics Commission. Thank you for your cooperation.

NOTE: Your electronically filed submission of the form will provide one copy to the Joint Committee on

Legislative Ethics and one copy to the State Ethics Commission.

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Instructions For Form 19 - General Assembly Financial Disclosure Statement

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