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11 Senator Campbell moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 112.3215 Lobbying Lobbyists before the executive
19 branch, county officers, or the Constitution Revision
20 Commission; registration and reporting; investigation by
21 commission.--
22 (1) For the purposes of this section:
23 (a) "Agency" means the Governor, Governor and Cabinet,
24 or any department, division, bureau, board, commission, or
25 authority of the executive branch. In addition, "agency" shall
26 mean a county official and the Constitution Revision
27 Commission as provided by s. 2, Art. XI of the State
28 Constitution.
29 (b) "Compensation" means a payment, distribution,
30 loan, advance, reimbursement, deposit, salary, fee, retainer,
31 or anything of value provided or owed to a lobbying firm,
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1 directly or indirectly, by a principal.
2 (c) "County officers" means a sheriff, a tax
3 collector, a property appraiser, a supervisor of elections, or
4 a clerk of the circuit court.
5 (d)(b) "Expenditure" means a payment, distribution,
6 loan, advance, reimbursement, deposit, or anything of value
7 made by a lobbyist or principal for the purpose of lobbying.
8 (e)(c) "Fund" means the Executive Branch Lobby
9 Registration Trust Fund.
10 (f)1.(d) "Lobbies" means seeking, on behalf of another
11 person, to influence an agency with respect to a decision of
12 the agency in the area of policy or procurement or an attempt
13 to obtain the goodwill of an agency official or employee.
14 "Lobbies" also means influencing or attempting to influence,
15 on behalf of another, the Constitution Revision Commission's
16 action or nonaction through oral or written communication or
17 an attempt to obtain the goodwill of a member or employee of
18 the Constitution Revision Commission.
19 2. Food and beverages paid for or provided, directly
20 or indirectly, by a lobbyist or principal to, or for the
21 benefit of, an agency official or employee or a member or
22 employee of the Constitution Revision Commission is deemed an
23 attempt to obtain such person's goodwill unless the lobbyist
24 or principal is the person's parent, spouse, child, or
25 sibling.
26 (g) "Lobbying firm" means a business entity, including
27 an individual contract lobbyist, which receives or becomes
28 entitled to receive any compensation for the purpose of
29 lobbying, where any partner, owner, officer, or employee of
30 the business entity is a lobbyist.
31 (h)(e) "Lobbyist" means a person who is employed and
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1 receives payment, or who contracts for economic consideration,
2 for the purpose of lobbying, or a person who is principally
3 employed for governmental affairs by another person or
4 governmental entity to lobby on behalf of that other person or
5 governmental entity. "Lobbyist" does not include a person who
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7 1. An attorney, or any person, who represents a client
8 in a judicial proceeding or in a formal administrative
9 proceeding conducted pursuant to chapter 120 or any other
10 formal hearing before an agency, board, commission, or
11 authority of this state.
12 2. An employee of an agency or of a legislative or
13 judicial branch entity acting in the normal course of his or
14 her duties.
15 3. A confidential informant who is providing, or
16 wishes to provide, confidential information to be used for law
17 enforcement purposes.
18 4. A person who lobbies to procure a contract pursuant
19 to chapter 287 which contract is less than the threshold for
20 CATEGORY ONE as provided in s. 287.017(1)(a).
21 (i)(f) "Principal" means the person, firm,
22 corporation, or other entity that which has employed or
23 retained a lobbyist.
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27 And the title is amended as follows:
28 On page 3, lines 27 through 29, delete those lines
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31 lobbyists before the executive branch, county
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1 officers, and the Constitution Revision
2 Commission register and report as required;
3 defining the terms "compensation," "county
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