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.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
March 9, 2016
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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, SEAWRIGHT,
SIMANOWITZ, SOLAGES, STECK, STIRPE, THIELE, WEINSTEIN, 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:
Section 1. The second undesignated paragraph of subdivision (c) of
section 1-c of the legislative law is amended by adding a new subpara-
graph (R) to read as follows:
(R) COMMUNICATIONS WITH A PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST OR NEWSCASTER RELAT-
ING TO NEWS, AS THESE TERMS ARE DEFINED IN SECTION SEVENTY-NINE-H OF THE
CIVIL RIGHTS LAW, AND COMMUNICATIONS RELATING TO CONFIDENTIAL AND
NON-CONFIDENTIAL NEWS AS DESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISIONS (B) AND (C) OF
SECTION SEVENTY-NINE-H OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS LAW RESPECTIVELY.
S 2. Paragraph 4 of subdivision (c) of section 1-h of the legislative
law, as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 399 of the laws of 2011,
is amended to read as follows:
(4) Any lobbyist registered pursuant to section one-e of this article
whose lobbying activity is performed on its own behalf and not pursuant
to retention by a client[:
(i)] that has spent over [fifty] FIVE thousand dollars for reportable
compensation and expenses for lobbying either during the calendar year,
or during the twelve-month period, prior to the date of this bi-monthly
report[, and
(ii) at least three percent of whose total expenditures during the
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.
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