Section 1-H. Bi-monthly reports of certain lobbyists

(a) Any lobbyist
  required to file a statement of registration pursuant to  section  one-e
  of  this  article  who  in any lobbying year reasonably anticipates that
  during the year such lobbyist will expend,  incur  or  receive  combined
  reportable  compensation  and  expenses  in  an amount in excess of five
  thousand dollars, as provided in paragraph five of  subdivision  (b)  of
  this  section,  for  the  purpose  of  lobbying,  shall  file  with  the
  commission a  bi-monthly  written  report,  on  forms  supplied  by  the
  commission,  by  the  fifteenth  day  next  succeeding  the  end  of the
  reporting period in which the lobbyist was  first  required  to  file  a
  statement of registration. Such reporting periods shall be the period of
  January  first  to  the  last  day  of  February,  March  first to April
  thirtieth,  May  first  to  June  thirtieth,  July   first   to   August
  thirty-first, September first to October thirty-first and November first
  to December thirty-first.
    (b) Such bi-monthly report shall contain:
    (1) the name, address and telephone number of the lobbyist;
    (2) the name, address and telephone number of the client by whom or on
  whose behalf the lobbyist is retained, employed or designated;
    (3) the following information on which the lobbyist has lobbied: (i) a
  description  of  the  general  subject or subjects, (ii) the legislative
  bill numbers of any bills, (iii) the numbers or subject matter (if there
  are no numbers) of gubernatorial executive orders  or  executive  orders
  issued  by  the  chief  executive  officer  of  a municipality, (iv) the
  subject  matter  of  and  tribes  involved  in  tribal-state   compacts,
  memoranda of understanding, or any other state-tribal agreements and any
  state  actions  related  to  class III gaming as provided in 25 U.S.C. §
  2701, (v) the rule, regulation, and ratemaking or municipal ordinance or
  resolution numbers of any rules, regulations, or rates or  ordinance  or
  proposed  rules,  regulations,  or  rates  or  municipal  ordinances  or
  resolutions, and (vi) the titles and  any  identifying  numbers  of  any
  procurement  contracts  and  other  documents  disseminated  by  a state
  agency, either house of the state legislature, the unified court system,
  municipal  agency  or  local  legislative  body  in  connection  with  a
  governmental procurement;
    (4)  the  name of the person, organization, or legislative body before
  which the lobbyist has lobbied;
    (5) (i) the compensation  paid  or  owed  to  the  lobbyist,  and  any
  expenses  expended, received or incurred by the lobbyist for the purpose
  of lobbying.
    (ii) expenses required to be reported pursuant to subparagraph (i)  of
  this  paragraph shall be listed in the aggregate if seventy-five dollars
  or less and if more than seventy-five dollars  such  expenses  shall  be
  detailed  as  to  amount,  to whom paid, and for what purpose; and where
  such expense is more than seventy-five dollars  on  behalf  of  any  one
  person, the name of such person shall be listed.
    (iii) for the purposes of this paragraph, expenses shall not include:
    (A)  personal  sustenance,  lodging  and  travel disbursements of such
  lobbyist;
    (B) expenses, not in  excess  of  five  hundred  dollars  in  any  one
  calendar  year,  directly  incurred  for  the printing or other means of
  reproduction  or  mailing  of  letters,  memoranda  or   other   written
  communications.
    (iv)  expenses  paid  or  incurred for salaries other than that of the
  lobbyist shall be listed in the aggregate.
    (v) expenses of more than fifty dollars shall  be  paid  by  check  or
  substantiated  by receipts and such checks and receipts shall be kept on
  file by the lobbyist for a period of three years.

    (c) (1) All such bi-monthly reports shall be subject to review by  the
  commission.
    (2)  Such bi-monthly reports shall be kept on file for three years and
  shall be open to public inspection during such time.
    (3) In addition to the filing fees authorized  by  this  article,  the
  commission  may  impose  a  fee  for  late filing of a bi-monthly report
  required by this section not to exceed twenty-five dollars for each  day
  that  the  report  required  to  be  filed  is  late, except that if the
  lobbyist making a late  filing  has  not  previously  been  required  by
  statute  to file such a report, the fee for late filing shall not exceed
  ten dollars for each day that the report required to be filed is late.