Bill Text: NY A00414 | 2023-2024 | 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 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A00414 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A00414-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 414 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL, COLTON, L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee 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. LBD00186-01-3