Sec.1-92-50. When lobbyists influencing legislative or administrative action shall file financial reports

(a) Each client lobbyist registrant shall file with the Office of State Ethics, between the first and tenth day of April and July a financial report concerning lobbying activities during the previous calendar quarter. Each client lobbyist registrant shall also file with the Office of State Ethics, between the first and tenth day of January, a financial report concerning lobbying activities during the previous two calendar quarters. In addition, each client lobbyist registrant who attempts to influence legislative action shall file interim monthly reports concerning legislative lobbying activities for each month during which the General Assembly is in regular session for any period of time, to be received by the Office of State Ethics no later than the tenth day of the month following the month reported, except that no monthly report is required for any month in which the client lobbyist registrant neither expends nor enters into an agreement to expend one hundred dollars or more in furtherance of lobbying, regardless of whether lobbying activities are engaged in during the month. A client lobbyist registrant may include on one form all the reports due at a particular time: e.g., a client registered for both legislative and administrative action could put on one form the interim March legislative financial report and the legislative and administrative reports for the first calendar quarter, all due between April 1 and April 10. Client lobbyist registrants attempting to influence legislative or administrative action shall file each quarterly and year-end financial report due under section 1-96 of the Connecticut General Statutes, and this subsection, notwithstanding the fact that no compensation, reimbursement, or expenditures might have been paid during a given period, so that reports are filed for all periods until an effective termination is filed under section 1-95(c) of the Connecticut General Statutes.

(b) Each individual communicator lobbyist registrant and each business organization communicator lobbyist registrant shall file with the Office of State Ethics between the first and tenth day of January a report or reports, signed under penalty of false statement, reporting the amounts of compensation and reimbursement received from each of his clients during the previous year. In addition, each individual communicator lobbyist registrant and each business organization registrant shall: (1) report the fundamental terms of contracts, agreements or promises to pay or receive compensation or reimbursement or to make expenditures in furtherance of lobbying, including categories of work to be performed and the dollar value or compensation rate of the contract, at the time of registration; (2) report, in accordance with the schedule set forth in subsection (a) of this section, any amendments to these fundamental terms, including any agreements to subcontract work; and (3) report, in accordance with the schedule of subsection (a) of this section, any expenditures for the benefit of a public official in the legislative or executive branch or a member of the staff or immediate family of such official, which are unreimbursed and required to be itemized. All such information shall be reported under penalty of false statement.

(c) A communicator lobbyist registrant shall file a separate report for each client for which he or she was registered in the preceding calendar year. However, a business organization (law firm, lobbyist partnership, etc.) other than the client registrant to which one or more communicator lobbyist registrants belong may file a single report for each client represented. This business organization report shall include the names of all the communicator lobbyist registrants filed for. The filing of reports as a business organization shall not affect the statutory rights and duties, under the Code of Ethics for Lobbyists, chapter 10, part II, of the Connecticut General Statutes, of the communicator lobbyist registrants belonging to the organization.

(d) Those who are communicator lobbyists for a municipality or any subdivision of a municipality, a branch of state government or any subdivision of state government or a quasi-public agency shall file the reports described in subsection (b) of this section utilizing the client lobbyist reporting schedule.

(e) A notice of termination is effective on the date that the registrant amends the registrant’s electronic registration to reflect the termination. Registrations not sooner terminated are automatically terminated at the end of each biennial period which has commenced in an odd numbered calendar year.

(f) Additionally, pursuant to section 1-95(c) and section 1-96(d) of the Connecticut General Statutes, each client lobbyist registrant and each communicator lobbyist registrant for a municipality or any subdivision of a municipality, a branch of state government or any subdivision of state government or a quasi-public agency that terminates a registration during the calendar year shall file a financial report, between the first and tenth day of January of the next year, for the period from the day of termination through December thirty-first of the year of registration. Each other communicator lobbyist registrant who terminates a registration for a particular client during the calendar year shall file a report, as described in subsection (b) of this section, between the first and tenth day of January of the next year, for the previous year. These reports shall be filed notwithstanding the fact that no compensation, reimbursement, or expenditures were paid or received during the year or during the termination period.

(Adopted effective June 24, 2009; Amended May 11, 2023)