North Carolina § 120C-400 - Reporting of reportable expenditures.

§ 120C-400. Reporting of reportable expenditures.

For purposes of this Chapter, all reportable expenditures made for lobbying shall be reported, including the following: Reportable expenditures benefiting or made on behalf of a designated individual in the regular course of that designated individual's employment. Reportable expenditures benefiting or made on behalf of a designated individual's immediate family member in the regular course of that immediate family member's employment. Contractual arrangements or direct business relationships between a lobbyist or lobbyist principal and a designated individual, or that designated individual's immediate family member, in effect during the reporting period or the previous 12 months. Reportable expenditures reimbursed to a lobbyist in the ordinary course of business by the lobbyist principal or other employer. This section shall not apply to any reportable expenditure of cash, a cash equivalent, or a fixed asset made directly to a State agency that maintains an accounting of the reportable expenditure that is a public record. History (2005-456, s. 1; 2006-201, s. 18; 2007-348, s. 14; 2008-213, ss. 23, 90; 2010-169, s. 17(h); 2017-6, s. 3; 2018-146, s. 3.1(a), (b).) Editor's Note. - This section was recodified as now former G.S. 163A-325 by Session Laws 2017-6, s. 3. Former G.S. 163A-325 was then re-recodified as this section by Session Laws 2018-146, s. 3.1(a), effective January 31, 2019. The historical citation from the former section has been added to this section as re-recodified. Session Laws 2017-6, s. 22, provides in part: "Notwithstanding the recodification in Section 3 of this act, the Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement shall not administer or enforce Part 1, Part 3, or Part 6 of Article 8 of Chapter 163A of the General Statutes, and the Secretary of State shall maintain the authority to administer and enforce Articles 2, 4, and 8 of Chapter 120C of the General Statutes, as those Articles existed on May 1, 2017, until October 1, 2017." Session Laws 2018-146, s. 3.1(b), effective January 31, 2019, repealed Session Laws 2017-6, s. 3, which had recodified this section. Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2007-348, s. 14, effective August 9, 2007, designated the previously existing provisions as subsection (a); and added subsection (b). Session Laws 2008-213, s. 23, effective August 15, 2008, in subdivision (a)(1), deleted "or those persons' immediate family members" following "designated individual," inserted "designated" preceding "individual's employment"; added subdivision (a)(1a); in subdivision (a)(2), substituted "designated individual's" for "person's"; and in subsection (b), inserted "of cash, a cash equivalent, or a fixed asset," substituted " that maintains" for "and that agency maintains." Session Laws 2008-213, s. 90, effective August 15, 2008, substituted "lobbyist principal" for "lobbyist's principal" in subdivisions (a)(2) and (a)(3). Session Laws 2010-169, s. 17(h), effective January 1, 2011, and applicable to offenses committed on or after that date and reports filed on or after that date, deleted "the purpose of" preceding "lobbying" in the introductory paragraph in subsection (a).