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CS/CS/SB 544: Legislative Lobbying Expenditures

GENERAL BILL by Rules ; Ethics and Elections ; Braynon

Legislative Lobbying Expenditures; Amending and reenacting provisions relating to lobbying before the Legislature; revising the term “expenditure” to exclude the use of a public facility or public property that is made available by a governmental entity to a legislator for a public purpose, to exempt such use from legislative lobbying requirements; providing exceptions when a member or an employee of the Legislature may accept certain expenditures made by a lobbyist or a principal; providing for the future expiration and the reversion as of a specified date of statutory text, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2013
 Last Action: 5/3/2013 Senate - Died in Judiciary
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Ethics and Elections (EE)
  2. Governmental Oversight and Accountability (GO)
  3. Rules (RC)
  4. Judiciary (JU)


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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
1/30/2013 Senate • Filed
2/6/2013 Senate • Referred to Ethics and Elections; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules -SJ 41
3/5/2013 Senate • Introduced -SJ 41
3/6/2013 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 03/11/13, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
3/11/2013 Senate • CS by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 13 NAYS 0 -SJ 198
3/12/2013 Senate • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• CS by Ethics and Elections read 1st time -SJ 201
3/13/2013 Senate • Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability -SJ 198
3/28/2013 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 04/02/13, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
4/2/2013 Senate • Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 -SJ 278
4/3/2013 Senate • Now in Rules -SJ 278
4/4/2013 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/09/13, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Office Building
4/9/2013 Senate • CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 14 NAYS 1 -SJ 398
4/10/2013 Senate • Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• CS/CS by Rules read 1st time -SJ 399
4/11/2013 Senate • Remaining references corrected to Judiciary -SJ 431
• Now in Judiciary
5/3/2013 Senate • Died in Judiciary