PROVIDENCE — An investigator at the state Ethics Commission has filed a complaint against state Rep. Raymond E. Gallison Jr. alleging that the Bristol Democrat failed to disclose his earnings with what’s described in the filing as the College Readiness Program.

Under Rhode Island law, as a public official, Gallison is required to file a financial disclosure statement with the Ethics Commission by the end of every April that reports the name of any employer that paid him $1,000 or more in the previous calendar year. The complaint alleges that in his filings in 2001, 2002 and 2003, Gallison failed to disclose a total of $101,000 in earnings from the program.

The College Readiness Program was run by Leo DiMaio at the University of Rhode Island until 2001. That year, he formed Alternative Educational Programming Inc., moving the program to the Providence nonprofit corporation along with Talent Development, a program for disadvantaged students.

Gallison has said he was a consultant for the College Readiness Program while it was at URI, and that he joined AEP as a paid employee on July 1, 2002.

At a meeting Tuesday, the Ethics Commission will decide whether to authorize a full investigation of the complaint. That same day, the commission will hold a probable cause hearing on a separate complaint filed against Gallison in October by the Rhode Island Republican Party.

That original complaint centered on Gallison’s employment with AEP. From 2002 to 2006, according to the Republican Party, AEP received $1.2 million in state funding. It alleged that Gallison’s involvement with AEP is a conflict of interest, because the legislator is a member of the House Finance Committee, which has voted on budgets and other financial matters that affected his employer.

In December, the Ethics Commission ordered an investigation into the GOP complaint, finding that if the accusations against Gallison were proven, his actions would amount to an ethics violation.

Jason Gamitt, staff attorney for the commission, said yesterday that the allegations in the new complaint were discovered during the investigation of the original complaint made by the Republican Party.

The latest complaint was filed March 15 by Peter J. Mancini, deputy chief investigator with the Ethics Commission.

The complaint says that in 2000, while Gallison was an appointed member of the Bristol Zoning Board of Review, he also worked from July 1 to the end of the year for the College Readiness Program. Gallison was paid approximately $25,000 for his work, but in his filing with the Ethics Commission, he only disclosed his employment with the state Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals and his earnings as an attorney in Massachusetts.

The following year, after Gallison was elected to a seat in the state House representing Bristol and Portsmouth, he continued to work for the program, according to the complaint. He was paid $51,000 for that work, but did not disclose those earnings with the Ethics Commission in his 2002 filing, which reported only that he was a self-employed attorney.

In his 2003 filing, Gallison only disclosed his work with the program over the second half of the year, failing to report $26,000 in salary earned with the program between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2002, the complaint says.

Gallison declined comment yesterday on the latest allegations because of the ongoing case before the Ethics Commission.

The complaint about improper filings follows serious questions about his involvement with AEP raised by the state GOP last fall.

The party says that Gallison is being paid more than $50,000 a year by AEP at the same time that the corporation is receiving state and federal grants.

“His access to confidential information related to legislation and state finances, acted upon and likely provided to other officers, employees or contractors of AEP, resulted in pecuniary gain to himself as an employee or principal consultant to AEP, and is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of his duties as a member of the Rhode Island General Assembly and specifically his service as a member of the House Finance Committee,” one of the allegations in the complaint states.

At the time the complaint was filed, Gallison was locked in a heated race for reelection with a Republican challenger. Gallison dismissed the accusations as a ploy to undermine his candidacy. In November, he was voted back into office for a fourth term.

Gallison has said that the College Readiness Program at AEP annually receives a $280,000 community service grant in the state budget from the Department of Higher Education. He said that none of the money in that grant goes toward his $56,000 annual salary.

He has also said that he works only on separate initiatives at AEP, including a transition program from junior high to high school and anti-truancy and dropout prevention programs for high school students.

During the hearing Tuesday, the commission will vote on whether to dismiss the Republican Party’s complaint, continue the investigation or find that probable cause exists to support the allegations. The hearing will be closed to the public.

akuffner@projo.com