Bill Text: CA AB1574 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Political Reform Act of 1974: lobbying expenditures: reporting.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1574 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB1574-Introduced.html
during the month following each calendar quarter. within 14 days after the end of each calendar month. The period covered shall be from the first day of January of each new biennial legislative session through the last day of the calendar quarter prior to the month preceding the period during which the report is filed, except as specified in
subdivision (b), and except that the period covered shall not include any information reported in previous reports filed by the same person. When total amounts are required to be reported, totals shall be stated both for the period covered by the statement report and for the entire legislative session to date.
Bill Title: Political Reform Act of 1974: lobbying expenditures: reporting.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1574 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB1574-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill | No. 1574 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Mullin |
February 22, 2019 |
An act to amend Sections 86113 and 86117 of the Government Code, relating to the Political Reform Act of 1974.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1574, as introduced, Mullin.
Political Reform Act of 1974: lobbying expenditures: reporting.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires lobbyists employed by a lobbyist employer or a lobbying firm to provide a periodic report of the lobbyist’s activity expenses and contributions to the employer or firm within 2 weeks following the end of each quarter. The act requires lobbying firms, lobbyist employers, and persons who make payments to influence legislative or administrative action of $5,000 or more in value in any calendar quarter to file with the Secretary of State, during the month after the end of each calendar quarter of a biennial legislative session, reports regarding lobbying expenditures made during the calendar quarter.
This bill would instead require those reports to be filed a monthly basis.
The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the
Legislature may amend the act to further the act’s purposes upon a 2/3 vote of each house of the Legislature and compliance with specified procedural requirements.
This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
Digest Key
Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 86113 of the Government Code is amended to read:86113.
(a) A lobbyist shall complete and verify a periodic report which contains:(1) A report of all activity expenses by the lobbyist during the reporting period; and
(2) A report of all contributions of one hundred dollars ($100) or more made or delivered by the lobbyist to any elected state officer or state candidate during the reporting period.
(b) A lobbyist shall provide the original of his or her the lobbyist’s
periodic report to his or her
the lobbyist’s lobbyist employer or lobbying firm within two weeks seven days following the end of each calendar quarter. calendar month.
SEC. 2.
Section 86117 of the Government Code is amended to read:86117.
(a) Reports required by Sections 86114 and 86116 shall be filed(b) The period covered by the first report a person is required to file pursuant to Sections 86114 and 86116 shall begin with the first day of the calendar quarter month in which the filer first registered or qualified. On the first report a person is required
to file, the total amount shall be stated for the entire calendar quarter
month covered by the first report.