The New York City Clerk’s office recently issued a special report commemorating the first year of enforcing the City’s new lobbying laws. Among other developments, the City penalized lobbyists and their clients over $326,000, more than $301,000 of which was for missing reporting deadlines. The report also details the commencement of a Random […]

Yesterday was supposed to be the day that non-profit organizations receiving aggregate payments of $50,000 or more through government contracts in New Jersey filed their Chapter 271 Annual Disclosure Statements with ELEC for calendar year 2006. Instead, Governor Corzine signed into law S-3025/A-4660, which exempts non-profit entities from the Chapter 271 Annual Disclosure […]

Yesterday both houses of the NJ Legislature passed a bill that clarifies that nonprofit entities are not subject to Chapter 271’s annual disclosure requirement. As was previously chronicled here, here and here, the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission has been grappling with this issue for quite some time.  The bill now awaits […]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently issued a decision which upholds the constitutionality of Philadelphia’s Campaign Finance Law. The law had been challenged by local officials who alleged that the Philadelphia campaign finance law was preempted by the State’s election law. In a 5-2 decision written by Justice Baer, the Court held that the […]

At a meeting held yesterday, the Campaign Finance Board announced its certification of the first phase of the “doing business” database.
Pursuant to Local Law 34 passed in July 2007, city candidates are restricted from accepting contributions from persons deemed to be “doing business” with the city. The restricted contribution limits take effect 30 days […]