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Assembly Bill A7046

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to communications with professional journalists and newscasters; relates to reporting of certain funding by lobbyists

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2017-A7046 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1-c, 1-h & 1-j, Leg L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A9473

2017-A7046 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2017-A7046 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7046
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 29, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. TITONE, MORELLE, FARRELL, ORTIZ -- Multi-Spon-
   sored by -- M. of  A.  ABINANTI,  AUBRY,  BICHOTTE,  BLAKE,  BRINDISI,
   CAHILL,  COOK,  CRESPO, DILAN, ENGLEBRIGHT, FAHY, GJONAJ, GLICK, GOTT-
   FRIED, HEVESI, HOOPER, JAFFEE, JEAN-PIERRE,  JOYNER,  KEARNS,  LAVINE,
   LIFTON,  LUPARDO,  MAGNARELLI, McDONALD, MOYA, PAULIN, PEOPLES-STOKES,
   PICHARDO, PRETLOW, RICHARDSON, 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.
   § 2. Paragraph 4 of subdivision (c) of section 1-h of the  legislative
 law, as added by section 1 of part D of chapter 286 of the laws of 2016,
 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 [fifteen] FIVE thousand dollars in the aggre-
 gate  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

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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