An Act To Provide Information to the Public Regarding Lobbying and Lobbyists
Maine Legislature, Session 123, LD 1051
Committee: Legal and Veterans Affairs
Sponsors: WEBSTER, CLEARY, FAIRCLOTH
Amends: 3 MRSA §315, 3 MRSA §315-A, 3 MRSA §327

Legislative Document 
No.IOSI 
H.P.769 
House of Representatives, March 6, 2007 
An Act To Provide Information to the Public Regarding Lobbying 
and Lobbyists 
Reference to the Committee on Legal and Veterans Affairs suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative WEBSTER of Freeport. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Cosponsored by Representatives: CLEARY of Houlton, FAIRCLOTH of Bangor. 
Printed on recycled paper 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 3 MRSA §315, first~, as repealed and replaced by PL 1993, c. 691, §14, 
is amended to read: 
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; a photograph of the lobbyist; a professional biography of the lobbyist containing 
contact information, relevant past professional work, specific issues or specialty and a list 
of companies the lobbyist represents; and a statement as to the compensation that the 
lobbyist will receive for lobbying services or, if an exact amount is unascertainable, the 
basis upon which the lobbyist will charge for services. This docket must be updated on a 
weekly basis and arranged and indexed as follows: 
Sec. 2. 3 MRSA §315, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1993, c. 446, Pt. A, §12 and 
affected by §20, is further amended to read: 
2. Lobbyists. An alphabetical listing of those persons employed as lobbyists, which 
listing must indicate the names of all persons by whom each lobbyist is employed, and 
include a photograph of the lobbyist and a professional biography of the lobbyist 
containing contact information, relevant past professional work, specific issues or 
specialty and a list of companies the lobbyist represents. 
Sec. 3. 3 MRSA §315-A, sub-§l, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 613, §1, is amended 
to read: 
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, a photograph of the lobbyist, a professional biography of 
the lobbyist containing contact information, relevant past professional work, specific 
issues or specialty and a list of companies the lobbyist represents and a statement as to the 
compensation that the lobbyist will 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~ 
photograph of the lobbyist and a professional biography of the lobbyist containing 
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contact information, relevant past professional work, specific issues or specialty and a 
list of companies the lobbyist represents. 
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. 
Sec. 4. 3 MRSA §315-A, sub-§2, ~C, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 613, §1, is 
amended to read: 
C. 
A profile of each registered lobbyist and lobbyist associate, including contact 
information, the name of the lobbyist's employer or employers, relevant past 
professional work, specific issues or specialty, a list of companies the lobbyist 
represents and, if provided by the lobbyist or lobbyist associate, a photograph of the 
lobbyist or lobbyist associate; 
Sec. 5. 3 MRSA §327 is enacted to read: 
§327. Identification 
A lobbyist shall wear a name tag designed by the commission whenever the lobbyist 
is lobbying. A lobbyist shall state the lobbyist's name, the company the lobbyist works 
for and the client the lobbyist represents whenever the lobbyist approaches a Legislator. 
Sec. 6. Name tag. The Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices 
shall design a name tag with a distinctive background color and typeface that will 
immediately identify a lobbyist as a lobbyist that is to be used by a lobbyist pursuant to 
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the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 3, section 327. 
SUMMARY 
This bill requires lobbyists to wear name tags of a distinctive color and typeface that 
will immediately identify the lobbyists as lobbyists and to give their names, the 
companies they work for and the clients they represent whenever they approach 
Legislators. This bill also requires the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election 
Practices to collect from lobbyists for the lobbyist registry docket and from lobbyists and 
lobbyist associates for the commission website contact information, a photograph and a 
professional biography containing past professional work, specific issues or specialty and 
a list of represented companies. 
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