Gov. Josh Shapiro on Friday signed his second executive order that lays out his ethics reform plan that applies to his Cabinet officers and executive branch employees, including an integrity pledge and ethics training.
Gov. Josh Shapiro is introducing a sense of “reasonableness” into the gift ban he is imposing on employees who work under his jurisdiction.
Along with the gift ban, his three-part ethics package, effective immediately, also includes requiring Cabinet members and senior staff and employees who work in the governor’s office to sign anInitially, the pledge and training requirements will apply to 3,500 executive branch employees but Shapiro said it will expand from there.
signed on Wednesday that encourages more people without college degrees to seek employment within state government. He said as attorney general, he brought in Fillman to put in place a series of similar “gold standard” policies to “restore trust and ensure accountability for public officials” in the wake of the office’s soiled reputation arising from the criminal charges that sent former Attorney General Kathleen Kane to prison on perjury and obstruction of justice.
“The removal of the requirements to pay [for items given to executive branch employees as had been the case under former Gov. Tom Wolf’s gift ban] is really, if you will, a return to reasonableness,” Fillman said. “The intent is to prevent improper influence, to prevent undue influence and nobody’s going to feel bribed over a bottle of water.”
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