Section 560.371  Lobbyist Notifications to Officials

Pursuant to Sections 6 and 6.5 of the Act, registrants shall send 2 notifications to each official on whose behalf an expenditure was incurred during the reporting period.

a)         A registrant that makes an expenditure on behalf of an official must inform the official in writing, contemporaneously with receipt of the expenditure, that the expenditure is a reportable expenditure pursuant to the Act and that the official will be included in the report submitted by the registrant in accordance with Section 6 of the Act.  (Section 6.5(a) of the Act)

b)         Any official disclosed in a report submitted pursuant to Section 6 of the Act who did not receive the notification of the expenditure required by subsection (a) of this Section or who has returned or reimbursed the expenditure included in a report submitted pursuant to Section 6 of the Act may, at any time, contest the disclosure of an expenditure by submitting a letter to the registrant and the Secretary of State.  The Secretary of State shall make the letter available to the public in the same manner as the report.  (Section 6.5(b) of the Act)

c)         Within 30 days after a filing deadline, a registrant shall notify each official for whom an expenditure was reported of the name of the registrant, a description of the expenditure, the total amount of the expenditure, the date on which the expenditure was incurred, and, if applicable, the subject matter of the lobbying activity.

d)         Registrants shall not send the Secretary of State a copy of the notifications to officials.

(Source:  Amended at 35 Ill. Reg. 12761, effective July 18, 2011)