Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 313 – Registration of lobbyists, lobbyist associates and employers
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1. Registration. No later than 10 calendar days after lobbying more than 8 hours in a calendar month on behalf of an employer, a lobbyist shall submit a joint registration to the commission for the employer, the lobbyist and any lobbyist associates and pay a registration fee of $250. The lobbyist shall pay an additional $125 for each lobbyist associate included in the joint registration.
[PL 2023, c. 279, §1 (AMD).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 313
- Commission: means the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices as defined in Title 1, chapter 25. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 312-A
- Compensation: means anything of value that is received or to be received in return for, or in connection with, services rendered or to be rendered. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 312-A
- Employer: means a person who agrees to reimburse for expenditures or to compensate a person who in return agrees to provide services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 312-A
- Lobbying: includes the time spent to prepare and submit to the Governor, an official in the legislative branch, an official in the executive branch, a constitutional officer or a legislative committee oral and written proposals for, or testimony or analyses concerning, a legislative action. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 312-A
- Lobbyist: means any person who is specifically employed by another person for the purpose of and who engages in lobbying in excess of 8 hours in any calendar month, or any individual who, as a regular employee of another person, expends an amount of time in excess of 8 hours in any calendar month in lobbying. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 312-A
- Lobbyist associate: means an individual who:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 312-AMonth: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Year: means a 12-month period starting December 1st and ending the following November 30th. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 312-A
2. Fee waiver. The commission may waive the fee or fees required under subsection 1 in whole or in part if the commission determines that the fee or fees constitute an economic hardship to the employer. A lobbyist or employer may submit an application for a waiver under this subsection on a form or in the format approved by the commission. After receiving an application for a fee waiver, the commission may request relevant information from the lobbyist or employer, including, but not limited to, the amount of compensation the employer expects to pay the lobbyist in the coming lobbying year, the employer’s budgeted expenditures for personnel or for all programs and activities in the coming year and the employer’s revenues or expenses in the prior year.
[PL 2021, c. 114, §1 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1975, c. 576 (RPR). PL 1975, c. 621, §2 (RP). PL 1975, c. 724 (REEN). PL 1977, c. 108, §1 (AMD). PL 1991, c. 465, §1 (AMD). PL 1993, c. 446, §B3 (AMD). PL 1993, c. 691, §10 (RPR). IB 1995, c. 1, §7 (AMD). PL 1999, c. 745, §1 (AMD). PL 2019, c. 587, §7 (AMD). PL 2019, c. 587, §18 (AFF). PL 2021, c. 114, §1 (RPR). PL 2023, c. 279, §1 (AMD).