Bill Text: NY S06398 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Relates to reporting requirements on small nonprofits which lobby before the government.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-16 - PRINT NUMBER 6398B [S06398 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06398-Amended.html
Bill Title: Relates to reporting requirements on small nonprofits which lobby before the government.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-16 - PRINT NUMBER 6398B [S06398 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06398-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6398--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 27, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BIAGGI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Ethics and Internal Gover- nance -- recommitted to the Committee on Ethics and Internal Gover- nance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to relieving reporting requirements on small nonprofits The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 4 of subdivision (a) of section 1-e of the legis- 2 lative law, as amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2005, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 (4) Such biennial filings shall be completed on or before January 5 first of the first year of a biennial cycle commencing in calendar year 6 two thousand five and thereafter, by those persons who have been 7 retained, employed or designated as lobbyist on or before December 8 fifteenth of the previous calendar year and who reasonably anticipate 9 that in the coming year they will expend, incur or receive combined 10 reportable compensation and expenses in an amount in excess of two thou- 11 sand dollars in years prior to calendar year two thousand six and five 12 thousand dollars commencing in two thousand six, or where such lobbyist 13 is a nonprofit organization, ten thousand dollars commencing in two 14 thousand twenty-three; for those lobbyists retained, employed or desig- 15 nated after the previous December fifteenth, and for those lobbyists who 16 subsequent to their retainer, employment or designation reasonably 17 anticipate combined reportable compensation and expenses in excess of 18 such amount, such filing must be completed within fifteen days thereaft- 19 er, but in no event later than ten days after the actual incurring or 20 receiving of such reportable compensation and expenses. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10681-04-2S. 6398--A 2 1 § 2. Paragraphs (iii) and (iv) of subdivision (e) of section 1-e of 2 the legislative law, as amended by section 1 of part S of chapter 62 of 3 the laws of 2003, are amended to read as follows: 4 (iii) The first statement of registration filed biennially by each 5 lobbyist for the first biennial registration requirements for calendar 6 years between two thousand five and two thousand [six and thereafter] 7 twenty-one, shall be accompanied by a registration fee of two hundred 8 dollars except that no registration fee shall be required from any 9 lobbyist who in any year does not expend, incur or receive an amount in 10 excess of five thousand dollars of reportable compensation and expenses, 11 as provided in paragraph five of subdivision (b) of section one-h of 12 this article, for the purposes of lobbying or of a public corporation. A 13 fee of two hundred dollars shall be required for any subsequent state- 14 ment of registration filed by a lobbyist during the same biennial peri- 15 od; (iv) The first statement of registration filed biennially by each 16 lobbyist for the first biennial registration requirements for calendar 17 year two thousand twenty-three and thereafter, shall be accompanied by a 18 registration fee of two hundred dollars except that no registration fee 19 shall be required from any lobbyist who is a nonprofit organization and 20 in any year does not expend, incur or receive an amount in excess of ten 21 thousand dollars of reportable compensation and expenses, as provided in 22 paragraph five of subdivision (b) of section one-h of this article, for 23 the purposes of lobbying or of a public corporation. A fee of two 24 hundred dollars shall be required for any subsequent statement of regis- 25 tration filed by a lobbyist during the same biennial period; (v) The 26 statement of registration filed after the due date of a biennial regis- 27 tration shall be accompanied by a registration fee that is prorated to 28 one hundred dollars for any registration filed after January first of 29 the second calendar year covered by the biennial reporting requirement. 30 In addition to the fees authorized by this section, the commission may 31 impose a fee for late filing of a registration statement required by 32 this section not to exceed twenty-five dollars for each day that the 33 statement required to be filed is late, except that if the lobbyist 34 making a late filing has not previously been required by statute to file 35 such a statement, the fee for late filing shall not exceed ten dollars 36 for each day that the statement required to be filed is late. 37 § 3. Subdivision (a) of section 1-h of the legislative law, as amended 38 by chapter 14 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: 39 (a) Any lobbyist required to file a statement of registration pursuant 40 to section one-e of this article who in any lobbying year reasonably 41 anticipates that during the year such lobbyist will expend, incur or 42 receive combined reportable compensation and expenses in an amount in 43 excess of five thousand dollars, or ten thousand dollars where such 44 lobbyist is a nonprofit organization, as provided in paragraph five of 45 subdivision (b) of this section, for the purpose of lobbying, shall file 46 with the commission a bi-monthly written report, on forms supplied by 47 the commission, by the fifteenth day next succeeding the end of the 48 reporting period in which the lobbyist was first required to file a 49 statement of registration. Such reporting periods shall be the period of 50 January first to the last day of February, March first to April thirti- 51 eth, May first to June thirtieth, July first to August thirty-first, 52 September first to October thirty-first and November first to December 53 thirty-first. 54 § 4. Subdivision (a) of section 1-j of the legislative law, as amended 55 by chapter 14 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:S. 6398--A 3 1 (a) Semi-annual reports shall be filed by any client retaining, 2 employing or designating a lobbyist or lobbyists, whether or not any 3 such lobbyist was required to file a bi-monthly report, if such client 4 reasonably anticipates that during the year such client will expend or 5 incur an amount in excess of five thousand dollars, or ten thousand 6 dollars where such client is a nonprofit organization, of combined 7 reportable compensation and expenses, as provided in paragraph five of 8 subdivision [(c)] (b) of this section, for the purposes of lobbying. 9 § 5. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 10 have become a law.
