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• Acceptance of meals
• Regulatory Employees
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Whether a dinner hosted and paid for by a vendor at a national conference meets the exception under RCW 42.52.150(4)(f) for an event sponsored in conjunction with a governmental organization?
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1. How does the term “transaction involving the state” as defined in RCW 42.52.010(21)(a) apply to the Department of Ecology's (DOE) multi-step site sediment cleanup process?
See Opinion
2. How is “personal and substantial” involvement in a “transaction involving the state” determined?
See Opinion
3 May a former employee who participated in transactions involving the state assist a state agency as a contractor with regard to the same transactions?
See Opinion
4. What is the definition of “another person” as used in RCW 42.52.080(5) and does it apply to state agencies?
See Opinion
5. Do the restrictions in RCW 42.52.080 apply to situations that do not involve transactions with the state?
See Opinion
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• Acceptance of Gifts
• Community Colleges
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Whether classified staff and faculty members at community colleges and other institutions of higher education may accept cash awards for outstanding service from a nonprofit foundation organized for the support of the college or institution?
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• Confidential Information
• Elective Office
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1. Whether state officers or state employees may seek or hold elective office in local government when they administer state programs within the local government's jurisdiction?
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2. Whether state officers or state employees may disclose confidential state information when they hold local public office?
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• Transactions involving the State
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If an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) or an Industrial Appeals Judge (IAJ) owns stock in an employer, would their official actions relating to unemployment insurance and worker's compensation be exempted from a "transaction involving the state" under RCW 42.52.010(21)(b), and could they decide a case without incurring a conflict of interest under RCW 42.52.020 and RCW 42.52.030?
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• Acceptance of Meals
• Regulatory Employees
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1. When a vendor sponsors a presentation at an agency and provides breakfast or lunch to agency participants who are not "Section 4" employees?
Yes / See Opinion
2. When a vendor sponsors a presentation and pays for a meal for "Section 4" state employees and their spouses?
Qualified No / See Opinion
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• Outside Employment
• Subcontracting
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1. May a state employee work as a subcontractor to a state subcontractor on projects for his or her state agency?
Qualified Yes / See Opinion
2. May a state employee work as a subcontractor to a state subcontractor on unrelated projects?
Qualified Yes / See Opinion
3. May a state employee also work as an employee of a state subcontractor?
Qualified Yes / See Opinion
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• Conflict of Interest
• Board Membership
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1. Can venture capitalists, management consultants, patent attorneys, officers writing initial public offerings, and others appointed to the Washington Technology Center Board and its advisory committees avoid violations of RCW 42.52 by following the model rules of procedure in Advisory Opinion 96-09?
Yes / See Opinion
2. May Washington Technology Center members recuse themselves from discussing and voting on matters on which there is no existing conflict of interest in order to preserve potential future business opportunities?
Qualified Yes / See Opinion
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• Use of Public Resources for Political Campaigns
• Washington State Patrol
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1. Would the Washington State Patrol be in violation of Chapter 42.52.180 RCW, if a Governor or Lieutenant Governor are attending a political event for a ballot issue or another political candidate and they are travelling in the Executive Protection Vehicle designated for the transportation of the Governor or Lieutenant Governor?
No / See Opinion
2. Would it be a violation of Chapter 42.52.180 RCW, if a Governor or Lieutenant Governor were running for reelection and they traveled to specific campaign activities in the Executive Protection Vehicle, where the sole purpose of the travel is for campaign activities and no other state business is to be conducted?
No / See Opinion
3. Would it be a violation of Chapter 42.52.180 RCW, if a Governor or Lieutenant Governor are attending state events or meetings in the normal course of their duties and mixed in with those events is a political event as mentioned in questions one or two?
No / See Opinion
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1. Is an item received as a door prize a "gift" under RCW 42.52.010(10) if consideration is paid to attend a conference, seminar, trade show, or similar event?
No / See Opinion
2. If a door prize is not a gift, can a state officer or state employee keep a door prize even if his or her state agency paid consideration for his or her attendance at an official event?
Qualified No / See Opinion
3. Can state employees enter door prize or other drawings at events attended in their official capacities when consideration does not include the opportunity to compete for a door prize?
No / See Opinion
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• Conflict of Interest
• Prospective Employment
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Can a state employee pursue prospective employment with an employer without violating the state's ethics law?
Qualified Yes / See Opinion
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