Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 21 - LEGISLATIVE AGENCIES
Chapter 10 - STATE ETHICS COMMISSION LOBBYING
Reporting of Lobbying Contributions and Expenditures
Section 21-10-8 - Expenditures for the purpose of lobbying
Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 21-10-8
Current through February, 2024
(a) Expenditures made for the purpose of lobbying means all those expenditures in support of and in preparation for direct lobbying or grassroots lobbying. Such expenditures include, but are not limited to:
(1) Drafting
and providing testimony;
(2)
Discussing actual or potential legislation or rules with any official in the
legislative or executive branch who is or may be involved in legislation or
rulemaking;
(3) Discussing lobbying
strategy;
(4) Research or polling
when the primary purpose of the research or polling is to use in lobbying
activities;
(5)
Advertising;
(6) Monitoring the
status of proposed legislation or proposed administrative rules, when the primary
purpose of the monitoring is to engage in lobbying;
(7) An event organized for the purpose of
providing interaction between members of the legislature or an agency and an
individual or organization that is engaged in lobbying, or intends to engage in
lobbying, where the topics of the lobbying effort are discussed;
(8) Time spent waiting to testify at a hearing,
when the individual who is waiting;
(A) Is
being compensated to lobby during that waiting time and is not performing other
work unrelated to the lobbying;
(B)
Spends that time preparing, reviewing, or strategizing on the testimony;
or
(C) Spends that time otherwise
lobbying.
(b) Expenditures on the following activities arc not considered expenditures for the purpose of lobbying:
(1) Performing work
relating to service on a task force created by the legislature or an agency;
and
(2) Research on and discussions
regarding policy matters where the research or discussions are not reasonably
likely to lead to lobbying activities within a twelve-month
period.
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