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Lobbying Service Requirements


Lobbying service is a term used to describe the activities that an individual or organization engages in to influence legislative or executive action, and/or their own business interests. These services include, but are not limited to, drafting legislation, rendering opinions as to the construction and effect of bills, advising clients on regulatory matters and/or making representations with respect to any government agency or department. Here are tips on how to run the a lobbying campaign and be succesful.

The LDA requires that all registrants disclose the name of each individual employed or retained by them as a lobbyist for their client. These individuals should be listed on the registration (LD-1) and quarterly activity reports for each client.


"Lobbyist" means any person who is employed or retained by a client for financial or other compensation to conduct lobbying activities on behalf of that client. The term "client" includes any individual, corporation, company, foundation, association, labor organization, firm, partnership, society, joint stock company, or state or local government entity employing or retaining a lobbyist for those purposes.


Unless the LDA specifies otherwise, an individual falls within the definition of "lobbyist" if they make more than one lobbying contact during the course of their services provided to a particular client over a three-month period. Alternatively, an individual may meet the "lobbyist" definition if their lobbying activities constitute 20 percent or more of their time in services for that client over a three-month period.


In addition, if an individual's lobbying activities involve reporting and monitoring that is intended, at the time of its preparation, for use in contacts or coordination with the lobbying activities of others, the registrant should report these activities on the LD-2. Generally, if the reporting or monitoring is part of the planning or coordinating of future lobbying contacts and the individual is not expected to perform these activities for any other client, then they should be considered lobbying activities in support of those lobbying contacts.


A registrant must register for each client when their lobbying expenditures for that client exceed $14,000. This requirement is not triggered until a registrant knows or reasonably expects to make the required lobbying contacts.


The LD-1 must be filed no later than 45 days after the date of employment or retention to make more than one lobbying contact on behalf of the client, or the date that their employee/lobbyist who meets the 20 percent time threshold in fact makes a second lobbying contact, whichever is earlier.


Upon termination of the relationship between a client and a registrant, all registrants must file a Termination of Client Relationship report with the Secretary and Clerk. This report must identify the client and a brief description of the relationship.


When a registrant terminates a client relationship, the registrant must also terminate all existing in-house lobbyists. If the registrant has hired additional contract lobbyists, each must be listed separately on the LD-1 as a reactivated registrant. You can get extensive experience here on how lobbying works now.


The quarterly activity report (LD-2) must be filed no later than 20 days after the end of each quarterly reporting period that begins on January, April, July, and October of every year in which a registrant is registered. Each report must be filed electronically, if the registrant is using the Secretary and Clerk's online filing system. Check out this post for more details related to this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying.

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