Public official disclosure and reporting requirements - 4 of 25
Incorrect answer:
NO. The work STOP does is really important to your constituents. There are three old and decaying shopping malls in your district alone. You feel a strong need to join the trip to learn how to generate the process of conversion in Colorado. This is such a boring issue and the sights are so depressing -- why would anyone think a member would be going on this trip if he or she didn't feel the issue was so important? is INCORRECT.
Regardless of the public benefits to you or your constituents in making a particular trip, the quarterly disclosure report you file must disclose payment of or reimbursement for actual and necessary expenditures for travel and lodging for attendance at a convention or other meeting unless the payment or reimbursement is from: 1) Public funds; or 2) the funds of any association of public entities whose membership includes your office or the General Assembly. Here, the moneys that would reimburse you for your participation in the trip are being paid from the funds of a nonprofit entity that does not meet any one of these criteria. Accordingly, under the Public Official Disclosure Law, you are required to disclose the reimbursement. You are always permitted to decline reimbursement and pay for all expenses out of pocket. If you decline reimbursement, you have nothing to declare for that trip on the gift and honoraria disclosure report.
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