AB57: Bill Text

AB57,4,3 (2) Any person who is not a principal may, upon payment of the fee prescribed under s. 13.75 (5), register with the board an interest in any bill or proposed administrative rule.

AB57, s. 5 Section 5. 13.68 (1) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB57,4,10 13.68 (1) (a) (intro.) The aggregate total amount of lobbying expenditures made and obligations incurred for lobbying activities by the principal and all lobbyists for the principal, excluding lobbying expenditures and obligations for the principal's clerical employes and lobbying expenditures and obligations specified in pars. (b), (d) and (e). With respect to expenditures and obligations included in the amount reported under this paragraph:

AB57, s. 6 Section 6. 13.68 (1) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB57,4,24 13.68 (1) (a) 3. A reasonable estimate of lobbying expenditures made and obligations incurred for conducting, compiling or preparing research, information, statistics, studies or analyses used in lobbying shall be included in the aggregate total. Lobbying expenditures and obligations shall not be reported under this subdivision if the use in lobbying occurs more than 3 years after the completion of the research or the compilation or preparation of the information, statistics, studies or analyses. If the research, information, statistics, studies or analyses are used by the principal both for lobbying and for purposes other than lobbying, the principal shall allocate the lobbying expenditures and obligations among the purposes for which the research, information, statistics, studies or analyses are used and include the portion allocated to lobbying in the aggregate total. Any estimate or allocation of expenditures and obligations made in good faith, under this subdivision, fulfills the requirements of this subdivision.

AB57, s. 7 Section 7. 13.68 (1) (bn) of the statutes is created to read:

AB57,5,8 13.68 (1) (bn) For each bill or proposed administrative rule that accounts for 5% or more of the principal's time spent in lobbying during the reporting period, the principal's reasonable estimate of the proportion of its time spent in lobbying associated with that bill or proposed rule. With respect to the executive budget bill or bills introduced under s. 16.47, the principal shall further identify from topics provided by the board each topic that accounts for 5% or more of the principal's time spent in lobbying during the reporting period and the principal's reasonable estimate of the proportion of its time spent in lobbying associated with that topic.

AB57, s. 8 Section 8. 13.68 (1) (c) (intro.) and 1. of the statutes are repealed.

AB57, s. 9 Section 9. 13.68 (1) (c) 2. of the statutes is renumbered 13.68 (1) (c) and amended to read:

AB57,5,17 13.68 (1) (c) A contemporaneous record disclosing the time and resources spent on each attempt to influence legislative or administrative action in each subject area. The contemporaneous record shall be supplied on a form provided by the board and shall include an a daily itemization of the time and resources, except the time of clerical employes and unpaid volunteers, spent on research and preparation, the time spent meeting:

AB57,5,19 1. Meeting with elective state officials, agency officials, legislative employes of the state and other state employes having decision-making authority , and.

AB57,5,20 2. Research, preparation and any other activity which includes lobbying.

AB57, s. 10 Section 10. 13.68 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB57,5,25 13.68 (1) (e) The total lobbying expenditures made and obligations incurred for personal travel and living expenses, except for expenditures made or obligations incurred for the travel and living expenses of unpaid volunteers if the primary purpose of the travel is for reasons unrelated to lobbying.

AB57, s. 11 Section 11. 13.68 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 13.68 (2) (a) and amended to read:

AB57,6,8 13.68 (2) (a) If the principal compensates or reimburses a lobbyist or employe both for lobbying activities or expenses which are not exempt under s. 13.621 and for other activities or expenses, for the purposes of sub. (1) (a) 1. or 6., the lobbyist or principal may either report the entire amount of the compensation or reimbursement or estimate and report the portion of the compensation or reimbursement paid for nonexempt lobbying activities or expenses.

AB57, s. 12 Section 12. 13.68 (2) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

AB57,6,11 13.68 (2) (b) Any reasonable estimate or allocation made in good faith under sub. (1) (a) 3. or (bn) or this subsection fulfills the requirements of this section.

AB57, s. 13 Section 13. 13.68 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB57,6,20 13.68 (5) Records. All Each principal and each lobbyist engaged by a principal shall obtain, organize and preserve all accounts, bills, receipts, books, papers and other documents necessary to substantiate the expense statement shall be obtained, organized and preserved by the principal and any lobbyist engaged by the principal, including a contemporaneous account identifying the amount of time that a principal and each of its authorized lobbyists spend on lobbying each day, for 3 years after the date of filing the expense statement. A principal may permit its authorized lobbyist to maintain any of the records identified in this subsection on its behalf.

AB57, s. 14 Section 14. 13.69 (6m) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB57,6,25 13.69 (6m) Any principal, lobbyist or other individual acting on behalf of a principal who files a statement under s. 13.63 (1), 13.64, 13.65, 13.67 or 13.68 which he or she does not believe to be true may be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than 5 years or both.

AB57, s. 15 Section 15. 13.75 (5) of the statutes is created to read:

AB57,7,3 13.75 (5) Registering an interest in a bill or proposed administrative rule under 13.67 (2), $10.

AB57, s. 16 Section 16. 19.48 (10) of the statutes is created to read:

AB57,7,9 19.48 (10) Compile and make available information filed with the board in ways designed to facilitate access to the information. The board may charge a fee for compiling, disseminating or making available such information, except that the board shall not charge a fee for inspection at the board's office of any record otherwise open to public inspection under s. 19.35 (1).

AB57, s. 17 Section 17. 20.521 (1) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB57,7,18 20.521 (1) (i) Materials and services. The amounts in the schedule for the costs of publishing documents, locating and copying records, postage and shipping and conducting programs under s. 19.48 (9) and of compiling, disseminating and making available information prepared by and filed with the board under s. 19.48 (10). All moneys received by the board from sales of documents, and from fees collected for copies of records, for postage, for shipping and location fees, and from fees assessed to participants in programs under s. 19.48 (9) and (10) shall be credited to this appropriation account.

AB57, s. 18 Section 18. Nonstatutory provisions; technical and administrative support.

AB57,7,22 (1) The department of administration shall provide technical and administrative support to the ethics board, and shall cooperate with the board, to effect implementation of this act.

AB57, s. 19 Section 19. Initial applicability.

AB57,8,3 (1) The treatment of section 13.68 (1) (a) (intro.) and 3., (bn), (c) (intro.), 1. and 2. and (e), (2), (2) (b) and (5) of the statutes first applies with respect to reports under section 13.68 of the statutes due to be filed on July 31, 1999.

AB57, s. 20 Section 20. Effective date.

AB57,8,5 (1) This act takes effect on January 1, 1999.

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