Bill Text: NY A05986 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires lobbyists to provide annual reports disclosing clients that they have advocated on behalf of before any state or local governmental entity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A05986 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05986-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5986
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 21, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to  annual  reports  by
          lobbyists  disclosing  clients that they advocated on behalf of before
          any state or local governmental entity
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 1-jj
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  1-jj. Annual reports. (a) Any lobbyist required to file a statement
     4  of registration pursuant to section one-e of this  article,  shall  file
     5  with  the  commission an annual written report, on forms supplied by the
     6  commission, by the fifteenth day of January next following the year  for
     7  which  such  report  is  made,  disclosing all clients for each previous
     8  calendar year that they advocated on behalf of before any state or local
     9  governmental entity.
    10    (b) The annual report shall contain:
    11    (1) the name, address and telephone number of the lobbyist; and
    12    (2) the name, address and telephone number of the client by whom or on
    13  whose behalf the lobbyist is retained, employed or designated.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09551-01-7
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