Bill Text: NY A09473 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to communications with professional journalists and newscasters; requires reporting of five thousand dollars or more for reportable compensation and expenses for lobbying by lobbyists; requires disclosure of the names of each source of funding over one thousand dollars from a single source that were used to fund the lobbying activities reported and the amounts received from each identified source of funding.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 50-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-09 - referred to governmental operations [A09473 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09473-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9473
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 9, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. TITONE, MORELLE, FARRELL, SCHIMEL -- Multi-Spon-
          sored by -- M.  of A. ABINANTI, AUBRY, BICHOTTE, BLAKE, BRENNAN, BRIN-
          DISI, CAHILL, CERETTO, COOK, CRESPO, DILAN, ENGLEBRIGHT, FAHY, GJONAJ,
          GLICK, GOTTFRIED, HEVESI, HOOPER, JAFFEE, JEAN-PIERRE, JOYNER, KEARNS,
          LAVINE, LIFTON, LINARES, LUPARDO, MAGNARELLI, MARKEY, McDONALD,  MOYA,
          PAULIN,  PEOPLES-STOKES, PRETLOW, RICHARDSON, RUSSELL, RYAN, SANTABAR-
          BARA, SEAWRIGHT, SIMANOWITZ, SOLAGES,  STECK,  STIRPE,  THIELE,  WEIN-
          STEIN,  WOERNER,  ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to communications  with
          professional journalists and newscasters; and in relation to reporting
          of certain funding by lobbyists
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The second undesignated paragraph  of  subdivision  (c)  of
     2  section  1-c  of the legislative law is amended by adding a new subpara-
     3  graph (R) to read as follows:
     4    (R) Communications with a professional journalist or newscaster relat-
     5  ing to news, as these terms are defined in section seventy-nine-h of the
     6  civil rights law, and communications relating to confidential  and  non-
     7  confidential  news  as  described in subdivisions (b) and (c) of section
     8  seventy-nine-h of the civil rights law respectively.
     9    § 2. Paragraph 4 of subdivision (c) of section 1-h of the  legislative
    10  law, as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 399 of the laws of 2011,
    11  is amended to read as follows:
    12    (4)  Any lobbyist registered pursuant to section one-e of this article
    13  whose lobbying activity is performed on its own behalf and not  pursuant
    14  to retention by a client[:
    15    (i)]  that has spent over [fifty] five thousand dollars for reportable
    16  compensation and expenses for lobbying either during the calendar  year,
    17  or  during the twelve-month period, prior to the date of this bi-monthly
    18  report[, and
    19    (ii) at least three percent of whose  total  expenditures  during  the
    20  same period were devoted to lobbying in New York]
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14440-01-6