Assembly Bill 1234
Effective January 1, 2006
Imposes ethics training and compensation and reimbursement requirements on cities, counties and special districts for officials currently serving a local agency. AB 1234 requires no less than two hours of ethics training in general ethics principles and ethics laws to be completed no later than January 1, 2007. Officials who begin their term on or after January 1, 2006 will be required to fulfill two hours of ethics training within one year of taking office. Thereafter officials are required to complete two hours of ethics training every two years. Officials whose terms end before January 1, 2007 are exempted from the ethics training requirement.