(A) Each state agency or department must, no later than June thirtieth and January thirty-first of each year, file a report with the State Ethics Commission covering that agency’s lobbying during that filing period. The filing periods are from January first to May thirty-first for the June thirtieth report, and are from June first to December thirty-first for the January thirty-first report. Any lobbying activity not reflected on the June thirtieth report and not reported on a statement of termination pursuant to § 2-17-25(C) must be reported no later than January thirty-first of the succeeding year. Each report must be in a form prescribed by the State Ethics Commission and be limited to and contain:

(1) an identification of each public official, public employee, or other person who engaged in lobbying for that agency during the covered period;

Terms Used In South Carolina Code 2-17-40

  • Covered agency actions: means the proposal, drafting, development, consideration, amendment, withdrawal, or promulgation of a regulation under Article 1, Chapter 23 of Title 1 of the 1976 Code. See South Carolina Code 2-17-10
  • Covered gubernatorial actions: means :

    (a) gubernatorial approval or veto of legislation;

    (b) gubernatorial consideration or issuance of any executive order;

    (c) gubernatorial consideration or making of any appointment; or

    (d) gubernatorial consideration of or the decision to award any grant derived from federal or other funds or from any source. See South Carolina Code 2-17-10
  • Income: means the receipt or promise of any consideration, whether or not legally enforceable, including attorney's fees attributable to lobbying. See South Carolina Code 2-17-10
  • Legislation: means :

    (a) bills, resolutions, amendments, reports, legislative acts, vetoes, nominations, rules, and regulations pending or proposed in either the House or Senate;

    (b) any other matter which may be the subject of action by either house; or

    (c) the appointment of committees of conference and free conference by the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the President of the Senate. See South Carolina Code 2-17-10
  • Lobbying: means promoting or opposing through direct communication with public officials or public employees:

    (a) the introduction or enactment of legislation before the General Assembly or the committees or members of the General Assembly;

    (b) covered gubernatorial actions;

    (c) covered agency actions; or

    (d) consideration of the election or appointment of an individual to a public office elected or appointed by the General Assembly. See South Carolina Code 2-17-10
  • Lobbyist: means any person who is employed, appointed, or retained, with or without compensation, by another person to influence by direct communication with public officials or public employees: (i) the action or vote of any member of the General Assembly, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, or any other statewide constitutional officer concerning any legislation; (ii) the vote of any public official on any state agency, board, or commission concerning any covered agency actions; or (iii) the action of the Governor or any member of his executive staff concerning any covered gubernatorial actions. See South Carolina Code 2-17-10
  • Person: means an individual, a partnership, committee, an association, a corporation, labor organization, or any other organization or group of persons. See South Carolina Code 2-17-10
  • Public employee: means any person employed by the State. See South Carolina Code 2-17-10
  • Public official: means any elected or appointed official of the State, including candidates for any such state office. See South Carolina Code 2-17-10

(2) legislation, covered agency actions, or covered gubernatorial actions the persons identified in item (1) engaged in lobbying during the covered period;

(3) the identification of each person to whom income attributable to the lobbyist‘s lobbying is paid or promised and the amount of the income attributable to the lobbyist’s lobbying paid or promised;

(4)(a) a complete and itemized account of all expenditures made or incurred by those persons identified in item (1) in the performance of their lobbying during the covered period. The totals must be segregated by the amounts expended for office expenses, rent, utilities, supplies, and compensation of support personnel attributable to lobbying covered under the provisions of this chapter;

(b) the name of each public official on whose behalf the state agency or department initiated or made expenditures pursuant to § 2-17-90 and a complete and itemized account of the amount expended by the state agency or department for each public official;

(c) any reimbursements of or expenditures for actual expenses as allowed in § 2-17-100.

(B) Where total amounts are required to be reported, totals must be reported for the entire calendar year to date. The reports required by this section are not required from any agency whose only lobbying is appearing before any committee of the General Assembly at the request of that committee or at the request of any member or members of that committee.

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