Sec. 4. Requiring disclosure of persons providing strategic lobbying services
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Section 4(b)(6) of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 ( 2 U.S.C. 1603(b)(6) ) is amended— by striking expects to act as a lobbyist on behalf of the client and and inserting the following: expects to act as a lobbyist on behalf of the client, or who has been or who the registrant expects to be a provider of strategic lobbying services on behalf of the client, and ; and by inserting after first acted as a lobbyist the following: or was first a provider of strategic lobbying services .
Section 5(b)(2) of such Act ( 2 U.S.C. 1604(b)(2) ) is amended— by striking and at the end of subparagraph (C); by adding and at the end of subparagraph (D); and by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs: a list of the names and unique identification numbers of the employees of the registrant who were providers of strategic lobbying services in support of the registrant’s lobbying activities on behalf of the client during the quarterly period; and a list of the names of all other persons who were retained as providers of strategic lobbying services in support of the registrant’s lobbying activities on behalf of the client during the quarterly period, together with— the nature of the strategic lobbying services provided, along with a brief summary of work performed; the amount paid to each such person for such services; the name of any individual employed by such person who supervised the provision of such services, and, if the individual served as a covered executive branch official or a covered legislative branch official in the previous 20 years, a statement describing the position in which such individual served; and the name of any individual employed by such person who provided such services during the quarterly period, and, if the individual served as a covered executive branch official or a covered legislative branch official in the previous 20 years, a statement describing the position in which such individual served. .
Section 6(a)(3)(A) of such Act ( 2 U.S.C. 1605(a)(3)(A) ) is amended by striking and their clients and inserting and their clients and providers of strategic lobbying services . Section 3 of such Act ( 2 U.S.C. 1602 ) is amended— by redesignating paragraphs
(15)and
(16)as paragraphs
(16)and (17); and by inserting after paragraph
(14)the following new paragraph: The term provider of strategic lobbying services means any person who, during a quarterly period described in section 5, provided a registrant under section 4 with 12 or more hours of services which are described in subparagraph
(C)but which are not otherwise treated as lobbying activities or lobbying contacts. In the case of a person who served as a covered executive branch official or a covered legislative branch official in the previous 20 years and who, during a quarterly period described in section 5, provided a registrant under section 4 with services described in subparagraph
(A)and also carried out lobbying activities on behalf of the registrant, such person shall be treated as a provider of strategic lobbying services if the combined time spent in providing services described in subparagraph
(A)and lobbying activities on behalf of the registrant during the period was 12 hours or greater. The services described in this subparagraph are the following: Providing strategic planning for lobbying activities or lobbying campaigns. Providing strategic advice regarding earned media or press coverage related to specific issues upon which a lobbyist employed by the registrant engaged in lobbying activities. Polling services enlisted by a registrant related to specific issues upon which a lobbyist employed by the registrant engaged in lobbying activities. Providing advice on or producing public communications related to specific issues upon which a lobbyist employed by the registrant engaged in lobbying activities. Encouraging persons to support or oppose legislative or administrative action or take action with regard to specific issues upon which a lobbyist employed by the registrant engaged in lobbying activities, including the costs of creating formal or informal coalitions of organizations for such purposes. . The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to statements and reports filed on or after the first day of the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress.
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