Section 8 - Periodic reports of certain lobbyists(a)(1) Any lobbyist required to file a statement of registration pursuant to section five of this act who in any lobbying year expends, receives or incurs combined reportable compensation and expenses in an amount in excess of two thousand dollars, as provided in paragraph five of subdivision (b) of this section, for the purpose of lobbying, shall file with the commission a first periodic written report, on forms supplied by the commission, by the fifteenth day next succeeding the end of the reporting period in which the cumulative total for such lobbying year equalled such sum. Such reporting periods shall be the period from January first to March thirty-first, April first to May thirty-first and June first to August thirty-first.(2) Any lobbyist making a report pursuant to paragraph one of this subdivision shall thereafter file with the commission, on forms supplied by the commission, a periodic report for each reporting period that such person expends, receives or incurs combined reportable compensation and expenses in an amount in excess of five hundred dollars for the purposes of lobbying during such reporting period. Such report shall be filed not later than the fifteenth day next succeeding the end of such reporting period and shall include the amounts so expended, received or incurred during such reporting period and the cumulative total thereof during the lobbying year.(b) Such periodic report shall contain:(1) the name, address and telephone number of the lobbyist;(2) the name, address and telephone number of the client by whom or on whose behalf the lobbyist is retained, employed or designated;(3) a description of the general subject or subjects on which the lobbyist has lobbied;(4) the name of the person, organization, or legislative body before which the lobbyist has lobbied;(5)(i) the compensation paid or owed to the lobbyist, and any expenses expended, received or incurred by the lobbyist for the purpose of lobbying.(ii) expenses required to be reported pursuant to subparagraph (i) of this paragraph shall be listed in the aggregate if seventy-five dollars or less and if more than seventy-five dollars such expenses shall be detailed as to amount, to whom paid, and for what purpose; and where such expense is more than seventy-five dollars on behalf of any one person, the name of such person shall be listed.(iii) for the purposes of this paragraph, expenses shall not include:(A) personal sustenance, lodging and travel disbursements of such lobbyist;(B) expenses, not in excess of five hundred dollars in any one calendar year, directly incurred for the printing or other means of reproduction or mailing of letters, memoranda or other written communications.(iv) expenses paid or incurred for salaries other than that of the lobbyist shall be listed in the aggregate.(v) expenses of more than fifty dollars shall be paid by check or substantiated by receipts and such checks and receipts shall be kept on file by the lobbyist for a period of three years.(c)(1) All such periodic reports shall be subject to review by the commission.(2) Such periodic reports shall be kept on file for three years and shall be open to public inspection during such time.N.Y. Regulation of Lobbying Act Law § 8
NB Chapter 2 of the laws of 1999 repealed, effective January 1, 2000, the lobbying act as enacted by section 1 of chapter 1040 of the laws of 1981. A new lobbying act was enacted as Article 1-A of the legislative law.
Section 5 of such chapter 2 transfers all of the functions and powers of the New York temporary state commission on lobbying created by such chapter 1040 to the New York temporary state commission on lobbying created by Article 1-A of the legislative law with respect to receiving the periodic and annual reports required to be filed pursuant to sections 8, 9 and 10 of the repealed chapter 1040. Also, pursuant to section 7 of such chapter 2, any action or proceeding commenced prior to January 1, 2000 under the old lobbying act shall be continued, prosecuted and defended pursuant to the old lobbying act as in effect on December 31, 1999.
Because of these provisions, the Commission will continue to set out the full text of the repealed lobbying act through December 31, 2000 in order that lobbyists who were subject to the former lobbying act may be adequately apprised of the responsibilities and obligations imposed upon them as continued by sections 5 and 7 of chapter 2 of the laws of 1999.