5-7-120. Full disclosure of public expenditures on federal lobbying. (1) Each quarter of a fiscal year that a state agency or a local government, as the terms are defined in 2-2-102, makes an expenditure for the services of a lobbyist to lobby an elected federal official or an appointee of an elected federal official, the state agency or local government shall make readily available for public inspection upon request a summary report itemizing each lobbying service provided and how much money was spent for each service.
(2) Each state agency and local government subject to subsection (1) shall:
(a) designate an office from which a copy of the report may be obtained; and
(b) post a copy of the report to the agency's or local government's website on the internet, if the agency or local government has a website.
(3) For purposes of this section:
(a) "expenditure" means a payment by the state agency or local government or a payment by a contractor of the state agency or local government; and
(b) "lobbying" means the practice of promoting or opposing an official action by an elected federal official or an appointee of an elected federal official.
History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 241, L. 2007; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 6, L. 2021.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Part 1. General Provisions -- Licenses
5-7-101. Purposes of chapter -- applicability
5-7-103. Licenses -- fees -- eligibility -- waiver
5-7-105. Suspension of lobbying privileges
5-7-108. Inspection of applications and reports -- order of noncompliance -- notification
5-7-111. Commissioner to make rules
5-7-112. Payment threshold -- inflation adjustment
5-7-113. through 5-7-119 reserved
5-7-120. Full disclosure of public expenditures on federal lobbying