* § 8. Periodic reports of certain lobbyists. (a) (1) Any lobbyist
required to file a statement of registration pursuant to section five of
this act who in any lobbying year expends, receives or incurs combined
reportable compensation and expenses in an amount in excess of two
thousand dollars, as provided in paragraph five of subdivision (b) of
this section, for the purpose of lobbying, shall file with the
commission a first periodic written report, on forms supplied by the
commission, by the fifteenth day next succeeding the end of the
reporting period in which the cumulative total for such lobbying year
equalled such sum. Such reporting periods shall be the period from
January first to March thirty-first, April first to May thirty-first and
June first to August thirty-first.

(2) Any lobbyist making a report pursuant to paragraph one of this
subdivision shall thereafter file with the commission, on forms supplied
by the commission, a periodic report for each reporting period that such
person expends, receives or incurs combined reportable compensation and
expenses in an amount in excess of five hundred dollars for the purposes
of lobbying during such reporting period. Such report shall be filed not
later than the fifteenth day next succeeding the end of such reporting
period and shall include the amounts so expended, received or incurred
during such reporting period and the cumulative total thereof during the
lobbying year.

(b) Such periodic report shall contain:

(1) the name, address and telephone number of the lobbyist;

(2) the name, address and telephone number of the client by whom or on
whose behalf the lobbyist is retained, employed or designated;

(3) a description of the general subject or subjects on which the
lobbyist has lobbied;

(4) the name of the person, organization, or legislative body before
which the lobbyist has lobbied;

(5) (i) the compensation paid or owed to the lobbyist, and any
expenses expended, received or incurred by the lobbyist for the purpose
of lobbying.

(ii) expenses required to be reported pursuant to subparagraph (i) of
this paragraph shall be listed in the aggregate if seventy-five dollars
or less and if more than seventy-five dollars such expenses shall be
detailed as to amount, to whom paid, and for what purpose; and where
such expense is more than seventy-five dollars on behalf of any one
person, the name of such person shall be listed.

(iii) for the purposes of this paragraph, expenses shall not include:

(A) personal sustenance, lodging and travel disbursements of such
lobbyist;

(B) expenses, not in excess of five hundred dollars in any one
calendar year, directly incurred for the printing or other means of
reproduction or mailing of letters, memoranda or other written
communications.

(iv) expenses paid or incurred for salaries other than that of the
lobbyist shall be listed in the aggregate.

(v) expenses of more than fifty dollars shall be paid by check or
substantiated by receipts and such checks and receipts shall be kept on
file by the lobbyist for a period of three years.

(c) (1) All such periodic reports shall be subject to review by the
commission.

(2) Such periodic reports shall be kept on file for three years and
shall be open to public inspection during such time.

* NB Chapter 2 of the laws of 1999 repealed, effective January 1,
2000, the lobbying act as enacted by section 1 of chapter 1040 of the
laws of 1981. A new lobbying act was enacted as Article 1-A of the
legislative law.

Section 5 of such chapter 2 transfers all of the functions and powers
of the New York temporary state commission on lobbying created by such
chapter 1040 to the New York temporary state commission on lobbying
created by Article 1-A of the legislative law with respect to receiving
the periodic and annual reports required to be filed pursuant to
sections 8, 9 and 10 of the repealed chapter 1040. Also, pursuant to
section 7 of such chapter 2, any action or proceeding commenced prior to
January 1, 2000 under the old lobbying act shall be continued,
prosecuted and defended pursuant to the old lobbying act as in effect on
December 31, 1999.

Because of these provisions, the Commission will continue to set out
the full text of the repealed lobbying act through December 31, 2000 in
order that lobbyists who were subject to the former lobbying act may be
adequately apprised of the responsibilities and obligations imposed upon
them as continued by sections 5 and 7 of chapter 2 of the laws of 1999.