2025 bills / S.B. 291
S.B. 291 Lobbying Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill would ban offering or giving anything of value to someone for lobbying when the payment depends on a government action, and it would set criminal and civil penalties for breaking that rule. It would also change the legal definitions of lobbyist, lobbying, and principal, adjust spending limits, and exempt certain university sporting events and performances from the definition of expenditure.
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Official description
- defines terms
- modifies and clarifies the definitions of lobbyist, lobbying, and a principal
- modifies the limits for certain expenditures
- prohibits consideration, a reward, or an incentive for lobbying that is contingent on certain government action and provides criminal and civil penalties for violation of the prohibition
- replaces the offense of employing or soliciting a person to lobby for contingent compensation with the offense described in the preceding paragraph
- creates an exception to the definition of "expenditure" in relation to certain sporting events, performances, or exhibitions of a state institution of higher education or a private, nonprofit institution of higher education
- amends provisions relating to lobbying by a former state official
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 291 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 291 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 3 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 3 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 2 no, 2 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 26, 2025Who voted how
- 13 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 13 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how