§ 1-h. Bi-monthly reports of certain lobbyists. (a) Any lobbyist\nrequired to file a statement of registration pursuant to section one-e\nof this article who in any lobbying year reasonably anticipates that\nduring the year such lobbyist will expend, incur or receive combined\nreportable compensation and expenses in an amount in excess of five\nthousand dollars, as provided in paragraph five of subdivision (b) of\nthis section, for the purpose of lobbying, shall file with the\ncommission a bi-monthly written report, on forms supplied by the\ncommission, by the fifteenth day next succeeding the end of the\nreporting period in which the lobbyist was first required to file a\nstatement of registration. Such reporting periods shall be the period of\nJanuary first to the last day of February, March first to April\nthirtieth, May first to June thirtieth, July first to August\nthirty-first, September first to October thirty-first and November first\nto December thirty-first.\n (b) Such bi-monthly report shall contain:\n (1) the name, address and telephone number of the lobbyist;\n (2) the name, address and telephone number of the client by whom or on\nwhose behalf the lobbyist is retained, employed or designated;\n (3) the following information on which the lobbyist has lobbied: (i) a\ndescription of the general subject or subjects, (ii) the legislative\nbill numbers of any bills, (iii) the numbers or subject matter (if there\nare no numbers) of gubernatorial executive orders or executive orders\nissued by the chief executive officer of a municipality, (iv) the\nsubject matter of and tribes involved in tribal-state compacts,\nmemoranda of understanding, or any other state-tribal agreements and any\nstate actions related to class III gaming as provided in 25 U.S.C. §\n2701, (v) the rule, regulation, and ratemaking or municipal ordinance or\nresolution numbers of any rules, regulations, or rates or ordinance or\nproposed rules, regulations, or rates or municipal ordinances or\nresolutions, and (vi) the titles and any identifying numbers of any\nprocurement contracts and other documents disseminated by a state\nagency, either house of the state legislature, the unified court system,\nmunicipal agency or local legislative body in connection with a\ngovernmental procurement;\n (4) the name of the person, organization, or legislative body before\nwhich the lobbyist has lobbied;\n (5) (i) the compensation paid or owed to the lobbyist, and any\nexpenses expended, received or incurred by the lobbyist for the purpose\nof lobbying.\n (ii) expenses required to be reported pursuant to subparagraph (i) of\nthis paragraph shall be listed in the aggregate if seventy-five dollars\nor less and if more than seventy-five dollars such expenses shall be\ndetailed as to amount, to whom paid, and for what purpose; and where\nsuch expense is more than seventy-five dollars on behalf of any one\nperson, the name of such person shall be listed.\n (iii) for the purposes of this paragraph, expenses shall not include:\n (A) personal sustenance, lodging and travel disbursements of such\nlobbyist;\n (B) expenses, not in excess of five hundred dollars in any one\ncalendar year, directly incurred for the printing or other means of\nreproduction or mailing of letters, memoranda or other written\ncommunications.\n (iv) expenses paid or incurred for salaries other than that of the\nlobbyist shall be listed in the aggregate.\n (v) expenses of more than fifty dollars shall be paid by check or\nsubstantiated by receipts and such checks and receipts shall be kept on\nfile by the lobbyist for a period of three years.\n (c) (1) All such bi-monthly reports shall be subject to review by the\ncommission.\n (2) Such bi-monthly reports shall be kept on file for three years and\nshall be open to public inspection during such time.\n (3) In addition to the filing fees authorized by this article, the\ncommission may impose a fee for late filing of a bi-monthly report\nr
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