Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session
Relating to: employment by a former member of the legislature as a lobbyist.
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill prohibits any individual who serves as a member of the legislature, for
12 months following the date on which the individual ceases to hold office, from being
employed as a lobbyist. “Lobbyist" is defined as an individual who is compensated
by a principal and whose duties include attempting to influence state legislative
action or state administrative rule-making action on behalf of the principal; if an
individual's duties on behalf of a principal are not limited exclusively to lobbying, the
individual is a lobbyist only if he or she makes lobbying communications on each of
at least five days during a six-month reporting period.
Violators of the prohibition are subject to a forfeiture (civil penalty) of not more
than $5,000 for each violation. Intentional violators are guilty of a misdemeanor and
are subject to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $5,000 or imprisonment for
not more than one year or both for each violation.