Connecticut 2019 Regular Session

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7	5		General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7386
8	6		January Session, 2019
9	7		LCO No. 5868
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12		-	Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT
13		-	~~ADMINISTRATION~~ AND ELECTIONS
	10	+	Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
	11	+	AND ELECTIONS
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21	20		AN ACT CONCERNING ET HICS.
22	21		Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
23	22		Assembly convened:
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25	24		Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 1-95 of the general statutes is 1
26	25		repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective 2
27	26		October 1, 2019): 3
28	27		(a) Each registrant shall file every two years with the Office of State 4
29	28		Ethics on a registration form signed under penalty of false statement, 5
30	29		on or before January fifteenth of odd-numbered years or prior to the 6
31	30		commencement of lobbying, whichever is later. If the registrant is not 7
32	31		an individual, an authorized officer or agent of the registrant shall sign 8
33	32		the form. Such registration shall be on a form prescribed by the board 9
34	33		and shall include: 10
35	34		(1) If the registrant is an individual, the registrant's name, 11
36	35		permanent address and temporary address while lobbying and the 12
37	36		name, address and nature of business of any person who compensates 13
38		-	or reimburses, or agrees to compensate or reimburse, the registrant 14
39		-	and the terms of the compensation, reimbursement or agreement, but 15 Raised Bill No. 7386
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	43	+	and the terms of the compensation, reimbursement or agreement, but 15
46	44		shall not include the compensation paid to an employee for [his] such 16
47	45		employee's involvement in activities other than lobbying; 17
48	46		(2) If the registrant is a corporation, the name, address, place of 18
49	47		incorporation and the principal place of business of the corporation; 19
50	48		(3) If the registrant is an association, group of persons or an 20
51	49		organization, the name and address of the principal officers and 21
52	50		directors of such association, group of persons or organization. If the 22
53	51		registrant is formed primarily for the purpose of lobbying, it shall 23
54	52		disclose the name and address of any person contributing three 24
55	53		thousand dollars or more to the registrant's lobbying activities in any 25
56	54		calendar year; 26
57	55		(4) If the registrant is not an individual, the name and address of 27
58	56		each individual who will lobby on the registrant's behalf; and 28
59	57		(5) The identification, with reasonable particularity, of areas of 29
60	58		legislative or administrative action on which the registrant expects to 30
61	59		lobby, including the names of executive agencies and quasi-public 31
62	60		agencies and, where applicable, solicitations for state contracts and 32
63	61		procurements. 33
64	62		Sec. 2. Subsection (b) of section 1-96 of the general statutes is 34
65	63		repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective 35
66	64		October 1, 2019): 36
67	65		(b) Each individual communicator lobbyist registrant and each 37
68	66		business organization communicator lobbyist registrant shall file with 38
69	67		the Office of State Ethics between the first and tenth day of January a 39
70	68		report or reports, signed under penalty of false statement, reporting 40
71	69		the amounts of compensation and reimbursement received from each 41
72	70		of his clients during the previous year. In addition, each individual 42
73	71		communicator lobbyist registrant and each business organization 43
74	72		communicator lobbyist registrant shall report: (1) [Report the] The 44
75		-	fundamental terms of contracts, agreements or promises to pay or 45
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	79	+	receive compensation or reimbursement or to make expenditures in 46
83	80		furtherance of lobbying, including the categories of work to be 47
84	81		performed and the dollar value or compensation rate of the contract, at 48
85	82		the time of registration; (2) [report,] in accordance with the schedule 49
86	83		set forth in subsection (a) of this section, any amendments to these 50
87	84		fundamental terms, including any agreements to subcontract lobbying 51
88	85		work; and (3) [report,] in accordance with the provisions of subsection 52
89	86		(a) of this section, any expenditures for the benefit of a public official in 53
90	87		the legislative or executive branch or a member of the staff or 54
91	88		immediate family of such official which are unreimbursed and 55
92	89		required to be itemized. Such report shall not include the disclosure of 56
93	90		food and beverage provided by a communicator lobbyist registrant to 57
94	91		a public official in the legislative or executive branch or a member of 58
95	92		his staff or immediate family at a major life event, as defined by the 59
96	93		Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board, of the registrant. All such information 60
97	94		shall be reported under penalty of false statement. 61
98	95		This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
99	96		sections:
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101	98		Section 1 October 1, 2019 1-95(a)
102	99		Sec. 2 October 1, 2019 1-96(b)
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	101	+	Statement of Purpose:
	102	+	To make revisions to provisions concerning ethics.
	103	+	[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
	104	+	except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
	105	+	not underlined.]
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