When a lobbying firm incurs electronic filing obligations, the clients of such a firm do not automatically incur separate electronic filing obligations. Rather, the client must qualify on its own by meeting the dollar activity threshold for that quarter before incurring separate electronic filing obligations apart from the firm. It depends on whether the information has already been reported on a campaign statement on file with the Secretary of State. Conversely, contributions which have not previously been reported, and which are required to be itemized on the lobbying report are still counted towards the qualifying dollar or activity threshold for electronic filing. The filing requirements and schedules have not changed.
Electronic filing is simply a new, additional way of filing in certain cases.