| Agency |
Members / Commissioners
|
Staff (FTE)
|
General Fund Appropriation (FY 2007)
|
| Alabama Ethics Commission |
5 (t)
|
13 (s)
|
$1,373,223 (a)
|
| Arkansas Ethics Commission |
5 (u)
|
9 (b)
|
$630,232 (b)
|
| Florida Commission on Ethics |
9 (v)
|
22.5 (v)
|
$2,700,494 (c)
|
| Georgia State Ethics Commission |
5 (x)
|
19 (y)
|
$1,606,602 (d)
|
| Kentucky Executive Branch Ethics Commission |
5 (aa)
|
6 (aa)
|
$435,000 (e)
|
| Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission |
9 (f)
|
5 (f)
|
$377,200 (f)
|
| Louisiana Ethics Administration |
11 (bb)
|
18 (bb)
|
$1,465,348 (g)
|
| Maryland State Ethics Commission |
5 (dd)
|
9 (cc)
|
$612,201 (h)
|
| Mississippi Ethics Commission |
8 (ee)
|
8 (z)
|
$556,049 (i)
|
| Missouri Ethics Commission |
6 (ff)
|
20 (j)
|
$1,162,669 (j)
|
| North Carolina State Ethics Commission * |
8 (gg)
|
3 (k)
|
$224,818 (k)
|
| Oklahoma Ethics Commission |
5 (hh)
|
7 (hh)
|
$504,039 (l)
|
| South Carolina State Ethics Commission |
8 (ii)
|
11 (n)
|
$472,824 (o)
|
| Tennessee Ethics Commission |
5 (jj)
|
7 (p)
|
$469,100 (p)
|
| Texas Ethics Commission |
8 (kk)
|
35 (q)
|
$1,714,085 (q)
|
| West Virginia Ethics Commission |
10 (ll)
|
5.5 (w)
|
$700,000 (w)
|
| |
|
|
|
| Average |
6.8
|
11.8
|
$937,743
|
| |
|
|
|
| * North Carolina's current staff size is 6, and their general fund appropriation for FY 2008 is $740,610. (m) |
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| Virginia is not included in the table because it does not have an ethics commission |
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| Sources: |
| (a) State of Alabama, Executive Budget, 2007-2008. |
| (b) 2005-2007 Biennial Budget: Actions of the 85th General Assembly, Arkansas. |
| (c) Crist / Kottkamp Administration Fiscal Year 2007-08 Budget Recommendations, Florida. |
| (d) Budget in Brief / AFY07-08, Governor's Office of Planning and Budget, Georgia. |
| (e) 2006-2008 Budget of the Commonwealth, Office of State Budget Director, Kentucky. |
| (f) Telephone conversation with Tom Hampton, Budget Director, Legislative Research Commission, Kentucky. |
| (g) State Financial Plan: Fiscal Year 2006-2007, Office of Planning and Budget, Louisiana. |
| (h) Summary of Operating Budget Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2007. Maryland Department of Budget & Management. |
| (i) State of Mississippi Budget, Fiscal Year 2007: Appropriations Made by the Legislature for Fiscal Year 2007 Compared with Fiscal Year 2006 Appropriations. |
| (j) Fiscal Year 2008 Department Budget Requests, Office of Administration Book 2, Missouri. |
| (k) 2006-2007 Revised Certified Budget (BD-307). North Carolina. |
| (l) FY-2008 Executive Budget, Oklahoma. |
| (m) 2007-2009 Certified Budget (BD-307), North Carolina. |
| (n) Number of Employees by Agency, South Carolina Budget Control Board. |
| (o) Appropriations by Agency, South Carolina Budget Control Board. |
| (p) The Budget, Fiscal Year 2007-2008. State of Tennessee. |
| (q) Senate Bill 1 (General Appropriations Act), 79th Legislature, State of Texas. |
| (s) Email correspondence with Alabama Ethics Commission. |
| (t) Alabama Ethics Commission web page: <http://www.ethics.alalinc.net/contact.cfm>. |
| (u) Arkansas Ethics Commission web page: "About the Commission" <http://www.arkansasethics.com/>. |
| (v) Annual Report to the Florida Legislature for the Calendar Year 2006, State of Florida Commission on Ethics. |
| (w) Governor's FY 2008 Executive Budget--Volume II Operating Detail, West Virginia. |
| (x) Georgia State Ethics Commission web page: <http://www.ethics.ga.gov/EthicsWeb/references/commission.aspx>. |
| (y) Email correspondence with Jennifer Ward, HR/Budget Administrator, State Ethics Commission, Georgia. |
| (z) Email correspondence with Mississippi Ethics Commission. |
| (aa) Kentucky Executive Branch Ethics Commission web page: <http://ethics.ky.gov/MEMBERS.HTM>. |
| (bb) Louisiana Ethics Administration web page: <http://www.ethics.state.la.us/general/index.html>. |
| (cc) Maryland State web page: <http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/25ind/html/35ethicb.html>. |
| (dd) State of Maryland, State Ethics Commission web page: <http://ethics.gov.state.md.us/commiss.htm>. |
| (ee) Mississippi Ethics Commission wep page: <http://www.ethics.state.ms.us/ethics/ethics.nsf/webpage/A_commission_info?OpenDocument>. |
| (ff) Missouri Ethics Commission web page: <http://www.moethics.mo.gov/Ethics/GeneralInfo/MECInfo.aspx>. |
| (gg) North Carolina State Ethics Commission web page: <http://www.ethicscommission.nc.gov/comembers.htm>. |
| (hh) Oklahoma Ethics Commission web site: <http://www.ethics.state.ok.us/>. |
| (ii) South Carolina State Ethics Commission web page: <http://ethics.sc.gov/aboutus/Commission/Commissioners.htm>. |
| (jj) Tennessee Ethics Commission web page: <http://www.state.tn.us/sos/tec/members.htm>. |
| (kk) Texas Ethics Commission web page: <http://www.ethics.state.tx.us/tec/commissioners.htm>. |
| (ll) West Virginia Ethics Commission web page: <http://www.wvethicscommission.org/genInfo.htm>. |
