Bill Text: MI HB4351 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public employees and officers; ethics; lobbying by former legislators and executive branch officers; prohibit for a defined period after leaving state service. Amends sec. 6a of 1978 PA 472 (MCL 4.416a).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-18 - Printed Bill Filed 03/18/2015 [HB4351 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB4351-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4351

 

March 17, 2015, Introduced by Rep. Driskell and referred to the Committee on Oversight and Ethics.

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 472, entitled

 

"An act to regulate political activity; to regulate lobbyists,

lobbyist agents, and lobbying activities; to require registration

of lobbyists and lobbyist agents; to require the filing of reports;

to prescribe the powers and duties of the department of state; to

prescribe penalties; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,"

 

by amending section 6a (MCL 4.416a), as added by 1994 PA 383.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 6a. (1) A former member of the Michigan senate or house

 

of representatives or a former governor, lieutenant governor,

 

attorney general, or secretary of state of this state shall not

 

make expenditures for or receive compensation for lobbying that is

 

equal to or exceeds the monetary threshold required for registering

 

as a lobbyist agent for 2 years immediately following the end of

 

the term of office to which he or she was elected.

 

     (2) An individual who holds a nonelective position as the head

 

of a principal department of the executive branch of this state

 

shall not make expenditures for or receive compensation for

 

lobbying that is equal to or exceeds the monetary threshold

 

required for registering as a lobbyist agent for 1 year after

 

leaving that position.

 

     (3) (1) A In addition to the restriction in subsection (1), a

 

member of the Michigan senate or house of representatives or a

 

governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, or secretary of

 

state of this state who resigns from office shall not make

 

expenditures for or receive compensation or reimbursement for

 

actual expenses for lobbying that is equal to or exceeds the

 

monetary threshold required for registering as a lobbyist agent for

 

the remainder of the term of office from which the person resigned.

 

     (4) (2) A person An individual who violates this section is

 

guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than

 

$1,000.00 or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days or by a fine

 

of not more than $1,000.00, or both.