An Act To Require the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices To Produce a Register of All Registered Lobbyists Amend the amendment by striking out everything after the first indented paragraph after the title and before the summary and inserting in its place the fOllowing: Sec. 1. 3 MRSA §315-A is enacted to read: §315-A. Registration docket; disclosure website 1. Registration. The commission shall prepare and maintain a docket for the registration of lobbyists and employers of lobbyists required to register pursuant to this chapter. The registration docket and all supplementary files of information and materials filed pursuant to this chapter must be open to public inspection during the office hours of the commission. The docket must contain the name of the lobbyist and the person employing the lobbyist, the business address of each, the nature of the business of the person employing the lobbyist and Q statement as to the compensation that the lobbyist \<Till receive for lobbying services or, if an exact amount is not ascertainable, the basis upon which the lobbyist will charge for services. This docket must be updated on a monthly basis and arranged and indexed as follows: A. An alphabetical listing of those persons who have employed a lobbyist. which listing must indicate the names of all lobbyists employed by the employer; and B. An alphabetical listing of those persons employed as lobbyists, which listing must indicate the names of all persons by whom each lobbyist is employed. Page 1-LR2879(13) SENATE AMENDMENT
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1822
Committee Amendment CA_A-SA_D_S622 (Senate)
Amends: 3 MRSA §315-A

SENATE 
AMENDMENT "]),, to COMMITTEE 
AMENDMENT 
"A" to H. P . 
1262, 
L.D. 
1822, Bill, 
"An Act To Require the Commission on 
Governmental Ethics and Election Practices To Produce a Register 
of All Registered Lobbyists" 
Amend the 
amendment by striking out everything after the 
first indented paragraph after the title and before the summary 
and inserting in its place the fOllowing: 
'Sec. 1. 3 MRSA §315-A is enacted to read: 
§315-A. Registration docket; disclosure website 
1. 
Registration. 
The commission shall prepare and maintain 
a 
docket for 
the registration of lobbyists 
and employers of 
lobbyists required to register pursuant to this chapter. 
The 
registration docket and all supplementary files of information 
and materials filed pursuant to this chapter must be open to 
public inspection during the office hours of the commission. 
The 
docket must contain the name of the lobbyist and the person 
employing the lobbyist, the business address of each, the nature 
of the business of the person employing the lobbyist and 
Q 
statement as to the compensation that the lobbyist \<Till receive 
for 
lobbying 
services 
or, 
if 
an 
exact 
amount 
is 
not 
ascertainable, the basis upon which the lobbyist will charge for 
services. 
This docket must be updated on a monthly basis and 
arranged and indexed as follows: 
A. 
An 
alphabetical 
listing of 
those 
persons 
who 
have 
employed a lobbyist. which listing must indicate the names 
of all lobbyists employed by the employer; and 
B. 
An alphabetical listing of those persons employed as 
lobbyists, 
which listing must indicate the names of all 
persons by whom each lobbyist is employed. 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
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SENATE AMENDMENT "'h" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 1262, 
L.D. 1822 
The docket must be reestablished annually by the commission and 
the docket for any year must be maintained and be available for 
public inspection in the office of the commission for 4 years 
from the expiration of the docket. 
2. 
Disclosure website. 
The 
commission shall develop 
and 
maintain a publicly accessible website that displays: 
A. A list of all persons who have employed a lobbyist during 
the current year; 
B. 
A 
list 
of 
all 
lobbyists 
and 
lobbyist 
associates 
registered for the year: 
C. 
A profile of 
each 
registered lobbyist 
and 
lobbyist 
associate, including contact information, the name of the 
lobbyist's employer or employers and, if provided by the 
lobbyist or lobbyist associate, a photograph of the lobbyist 
or lobbyist associate; 
D. A profile of each person employing a lobbyist, including 
contact 
information 
for 
the 
employer, 
and 
a 
list 
of 
lobbyists and lobbyist associates engaged by the employer; 
E. For each employer, a list of all legislative actions that 
have been the subject of lobbying for the year, including 
hyperlinks to the summary page of the Legislature's publicly 
accessible website for each legislative document listed.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment strikes all of Committee Amendment "A" except 
that part that deals with the registration docket and disclosure 
website and changes in that section how often the docket needs to 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
SENATE AMENDMENT It]) It 
to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
ItAIt to H.P. 
1262, 
L.D. 1822 
be updated from weekly to monthly and deletes the phrase It issues 
and topics lt as it pertains to lobbying. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See at 
hed) 
SPONSORED BY: 
(Senator PLOWMAN) 
COUNTY: 
Penobscot 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
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Approved: 04/13/06 hac:.. 
LD 1822 
LR 2879(13) 
An Act to Require the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices to Produce a 
Register of All Registered Lobbyists 
Fiscal Note for Senate Amendment 'iD" to Committee Amendment ,A" 
Sponsor: Sen. Plowman 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Revenue 
General Fund 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
2005-06 
$0 
$0 
$0 
2006-07 
($55,000) 
$55,000 
($55,000) 
Projections 
2007-08 
($55,000) 
$55,000 
($55,000) 
Projections 
2008-09 
($55,000) 
$55,000 
($55,000) 
Removing the provision of the legislation that allows the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices 
to keep all of the lobbyist registration fees that it collects will eliminate the estimated annual loss of $55,000 in 
General Fund revenue and an equivalent gain of the same amount in dedicated revenue that was to begin in fiscal year 
2006-07. 
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