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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7386
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 5868
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT
ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING ET HICS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 1-95 of the general statutes is 1
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective 2
October 1, 2019): 3
(a) Each registrant shall file every two years with the Office of State 4
Ethics on a registration form signed under penalty of false statement, 5
on or before January fifteenth of odd-numbered years or prior to the 6
commencement of lobbying, whichever is later. If the registrant is not 7
an individual, an authorized officer or agent of the registrant shall sign 8
the form. Such registration shall be on a form prescribed by the board 9
and shall include: 10
(1) If the registrant is an individual, the registrant's name, 11
permanent address and temporary address while lobbying and the 12
name, address and nature of business of any person who compensates 13
or reimburses, or agrees to compensate or reimburse, the registrant 14
and the terms of the compensation, reimbursement or agreement, but 15 Raised Bill No. 7386
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shall not include the compensation paid to an employee for [his] such 16
employee's involvement in activities other than lobbying; 17
(2) If the registrant is a corporation, the name, address, place of 18
incorporation and the principal place of business of the corporation; 19
(3) If the registrant is an association, group of persons or an 20
organization, the name and address of the principal officers and 21
directors of such association, group of persons or organization. If the 22
registrant is formed primarily for the purpose of lobbying, it shall 23
disclose the name and address of any person contributing three 24
thousand dollars or more to the registrant's lobbying activities in any 25
calendar year; 26
(4) If the registrant is not an individual, the name and address of 27
each individual who will lobby on the registrant's behalf; and 28
(5) The identification, with reasonable particularity, of areas of 29
legislative or administrative action on which the registrant expects to 30
lobby, including the names of executive agencies and quasi-public 31
agencies and, where applicable, solicitations for state contracts and 32
procurements. 33
Sec. 2. Subsection (b) of section 1-96 of the general statutes is 34
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective 35
October 1, 2019): 36
(b) Each individual communicator lobbyist registrant and each 37
business organization communicator lobbyist registrant shall file with 38
the Office of State Ethics between the first and tenth day of January a 39
report or reports, signed under penalty of false statement, reporting 40
the amounts of compensation and reimbursement received from each 41
of his clients during the previous year. In addition, each individual 42
communicator lobbyist registrant and each business organization 43
communicator lobbyist registrant shall report: (1) [Report the] The 44
fundamental terms of contracts, agreements or promises to pay or 45
receive compensation or reimbursement or to make expenditures in 46 Raised Bill No. 7386
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furtherance of lobbying, including the categories of work to be 47
performed and the dollar value or compensation rate of the contract, at 48
the time of registration; (2) [report,] in accordance with the schedule 49
set forth in subsection (a) of this section, any amendments to these 50
fundamental terms, including any agreements to subcontract lobbying 51
work; and (3) [report,] in accordance with the provisions of subsection 52
(a) of this section, any expenditures for the benefit of a public official in 53
the legislative or executive branch or a member of the staff or 54
immediate family of such official which are unreimbursed and 55
required to be itemized. Such report shall not include the disclosure of 56
food and beverage provided by a communicator lobbyist registrant to 57
a public official in the legislative or executive branch or a member of 58
his staff or immediate family at a major life event, as defined by the 59
Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board, of the registrant. All such information 60
shall be reported under penalty of false statement. 61
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 1-95(a)
Sec. 2 October 1, 2019 1-96(b)
GAE Joint Favorable