§ 1-j. Semi-annual reports. (a) Semi-annual reports shall be filed by\nany client retaining, employing or designating a lobbyist or lobbyists,\nwhether or not any such lobbyist was required to file a bi-monthly\nreport, if such client reasonably anticipates that during the year such\nclient will expend or incur an amount in excess of five thousand dollars\nof combined reportable compensation and expenses, as provided in\nparagraph five of subdivision (c) of this section, for the purposes of\nlobbying.\n (b) Such report shall be filed with the commission, on forms supplied\nby the commission, by the fifteenth day of July of the year and by the\nfifteenth day of January next following the year for which such report\nis made and shall contain:\n (1) the name, address and telephone number of the client;\n (2) the name, address and telephone number of each lobbyist retained,\nemployed or designated by such client;\n (3) the following information on which each lobbyist retained,\nemployed or designated by such client has lobbied, and on which such\nclient has lobbied: (i) a description of the general subject or\nsubjects, (ii) the legislative bill numbers of any bills, (iii) the\nnumbers or subject matter (if there are no numbers) of gubernatorial\nexecutive orders or executive orders issued by the chief executive\nofficer of a municipality, (iv) the subject matter of and tribes\ninvolved in tribal-state compacts, memoranda of understanding, or any\nother state-tribal agreements and any state actions related to class III\ngaming as provided in 25 U.S.C. 2701, (v) the rule, regulation, and\nratemaking or municipal resolution or ordinance numbers of any rules,\nregulations, or rates, or municipal resolutions or ordinances 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 such client has lobbied;\n (5) (i) the compensation paid or owed to each such lobbyist, and any\nother expenses paid or incurred by such client for the purpose of\nlobbying.\n (ii) any expenses required to be reported pursuant to subparagraph (i)\nof this paragraph shall be listed in the aggregate if seventy-five\ndollars or less and if more than seventy-five dollars such expenses\nshall be detailed as to amount, to whom paid, and for what purpose; and\nwhere such expenses are more than seventy-five dollars on behalf of any\none person, 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 and client;\n (B) expenses, not in excess of five hundred dollars, directly incurred\nfor the printing or other means of reproduction or mailing of letters,\nmemoranda or other written communications.\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 must be paid by check or\nsubstantiated by receipts and such checks and receipts shall be kept on\nfile by such client for a period of three years.\n (6) (i) the name and public office address of any statewide elected\nofficial, state officer or employee, member of the legislature or\nlegislative employee and entity with whom the client of a lobbyist has a\nreportable business relationship;\n (ii) a description of the general subject or subjects of the\ntransactions between the client of a lobbyist and the statewide elected\nofficial, state officer or employee, member of the legislature or\nlegislative employee and entity; and\n (iii) the compensation, including expenses, to be paid and paid b
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