Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §605, sub-§1, ķA, as enacted by PL 1975, c. 499, §1, is amended to read:

A. Being a public servant he that person solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any pecuniary benefit from a person who he knows is or is likely to become subject to or interested in any matter or action pending before or contemplated by himself or the governmental body with which he is affiliated if the public servant knows or reasonably should know that the purpose of the donor in making the gift is to influence the public servant in the performance of the public servant's official duties or vote, or is intended as a reward for action on the part of the public servant; or

SUMMARY

This bill amends the laws governing the crime of improper gifts to public servants to more closely align these laws with the laws governing legislative ethics.