2023 California Code
Government Code - GOV
TITLE 9 - POLITICAL REFORM
CHAPTER 6 - Lobbyists
ARTICLE 1 - Registration and Reporting
Section 86117.
86117. (a) Reports required by Sections 86114 and 86116 shall be filed during the month following each calendar quarter. The period covered shall be from the first day of January of each new biennial legislative session through the last day of the calendar quarter prior to the month during which the report is filed, except as specified in subdivision (b), and except that the period covered shall not include any information reported in previous reports filed by the same person. When total amounts are required to be reported, totals shall be stated both for the period covered by the statement and for the entire legislative session to date.
(b) The period covered by the first report a person is required to file pursuant to Sections 86114 and 86116 shall begin with the first day of the calendar quarter in which the filer first registered or qualified. On the first report a person is required to file, the total amount shall be stated for the entire calendar quarter covered by the first report.
(c) (1) During the period beginning 60 days before the date the Legislature is scheduled to adjourn for the interim recess or final recess, a person described in Section 86115 shall file a report within 48 hours of paying or incurring an enforceable promise to pay five thousand dollars ($5,000) or more to a lobbying firm to influence legislative action if the person described in Section 86115 did not employ the lobbying firm on the day immediately preceding the 60-day period. A report filed pursuant to this subdivision shall be made publicly available directly by the filer through the online filing system described in subdivision (b) of Section 84602 or, if the online filing system will not accommodate direct filing, the report shall be made publicly available by the Secretary of State through electronic means within 24 hours of the time the Secretary of State receives the filing.
(2) The report filed pursuant to this subdivision shall include the following:
(A) The name, business address, and telephone number of the lobbying firm or firms the filer has paid, or incurred an enforceable promise to pay, five thousand dollars ($5,000) or more for the purposes of influencing legislative action for any lobbying firm that was not employed by the filer on the day immediately preceding the 60th day before the date the Legislature is scheduled to adjourn for interim recess or final recess.
(B) The identification number or, if none exists, the official title, popular name, or description of all legislative actions for which the filer has authorized the lobbying firm to engage in direct communications with legislative officials for the purpose of influencing legislative action, and the dollar amount of payments or enforceable promises to make payments made or incurred by the filer to the lobbying firm as described in subparagraph (A) during the 60-day period.
(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 873, Sec. 3. (SB 459) Effective January 1, 2023. Conditionally operative on or after January 1, 2023, pursuant to Stats. 2022, Ch. 873.)
