Public Records: Commonly Asked Questions About Massachusetts Lobbying Laws Commonly Asked Questions About Massachusetts lobbying laws Are there any exceptions to the registration requirements? Chapter 3, Sec. 39 lists several exemptions from registration in the area of policy and procurement. How do I register? interest in legislation and regulatory matters which could potentially affect the firm. http://www.state.ma.us/sec/pre/prelob/lobfaq.htm
MCN : Nonprofit Lobbying Laws established clear guidelines for lobbying expenditures. The Lobby Law clearly defined set of lobbying rules. This law on any legislation that would affect an organization's http://www.mncn.org/lobbylaw.htm
Extractions: Prior to 1976, there was enormous ambiguity over the amount of lobbying that nonprofits could do. The IRS rules required that tax-exempt nonprofits could lose their tax-exempt status if they did more than an "insubstantial" amount of lobbying. This "insubstantial-lobbying test" was never specifically defined in IRS rules, and individual IRS agents had no guidance in what constituted "too much lobbying."
In Praise Of Lobbying Illinois studying state government and for citizens wanting to affect Illinois laws. Professorof Political Science, Rock Valley College lobbying Illinois is http://ilsc.uis.edu/Lobbying Illinois/Praises.htm
Extractions: "This is a great new book for students studying state government and for citizens wanting to affect Illinois laws. I am assigning it in my Internship class as required reading and recommending to community and civic organizations. It answers all the important questions of how to lobby legally and effectively." P.S. Ruckman, Jr.- Associate Professor of Political Science, Rock Valley College "Lobbying Illinois is virtually without parallel. Mooney and Van Dyke-Brown have provided an informative, highly readable book that employs lobbying as a central theme but sheds considerable light on state institutions, the legislative process and "politics" in the state. Perhaps most impressively, Lobbying Illinois accomplishes its goals by a much-welcomed combination of excellent writing, presentations of data, lucid description and attention to both theory and context."
Weak Lobbying Laws Are A Disgrace - 1999-05-24 - Triangle Business Journal kept partially hidden by North Carolina's weak lobbying laws. The Common Sense Foundation just released a to influence the people who are making decisions that affect our lives. http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/1999/05/24/editorial5.html
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New Lobbying Disclosure Law Will Affect Emory Lobbyists compiles the records of University lobbying activities, two new laws went into effecton Jan. 1 that affect not only activities construed as lobbying, but also http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/1996/April/ERapril.15/4_15_96new_lob
Extractions: As a result of recent federal legislation, any employee who engages in lobbying activities on behalf of Emory will have to report those activities, through the University, to the Clerk of the U.S. House of the Representatives and the Secretary of the U.S. Senate. According to Associate Vice President for Governmental and Community Affairs Steve Moye, whose office compiles the records of University lobbying activities, two new laws went into effect on Jan. 1 that affect not only activities construed as lobbying, but also gifts, meals, entertainment and travel provided to legislators. The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 requires all organizations that employ lobbyists and meet certain minimum threshold requirements to register with the appropriate House and Senate offices. The new law defines "lobbyist" as an individual who is employed by an organization "for services that include more than one lobbying contact" and devotes at least 20 percent of his or her time to "lobbying activities" over a six-month period for the organization. Emory has registered under these guidelines. Lobbying contacts are defined as contacts by an employee or lobbyist with members of Congress, their staff, or senior officials of the executive branch, concerning influencing federal legislation; influencing federal rules and regulations and executive orders; negotiation, award or administration of federal programs, policies, grants, loans, permits or licenses; and nominations subject to Senate confirmation.
Page Title boating laws in your state and how will federal legislation affect those laws andprograms organizations can and do play a major part in lobbying Congress http://www.safeboatingcouncil.org/anchor/2001vol2issue2/page3.html
Extractions: Since nonprofits are, not-for-profit organizations, the next question is how to raise money for lobbying. There is an absolute ban on lobbying with federally appropriated funds. This applies to federal grants, contracts and cooperative agreements. On the other hand, federal grantees can lobby if they use membership dues or other non-federal receipts for this purpose. It is important, if this is the case, for the organizations to maintain separate accounting records and to basically treat the two organizations as separate organizations, including having separate Board meetings.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Lobbying May Tone Down Criticism Of Mandatory Laws RIGHTSAUSTRALIA lobbying May Tone Down Criticism of Mandatory laws By Sonny Inbaraj to its controversial mandatory sentencing laws following intense diplomatic lobbying of the UN's human rights wary the UN report could affect the Port Darwin by-election results. http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/mar00/06_27_018.html
Extractions: To subscribe , please contact us at: Africa Asia Caribbean Europe ... North America By Sonny Inbaraj DARWIN, Australia, Mar 7 (IPS) - Australia could be let off the hook with regard to its controversial mandatory sentencing laws following intense diplomatic lobbying of the UN's human rights office by Australian officials. The Age newspaper reported at the weekend that in a series of meetings, Australian officials warned that the report being compiled in the office of the UN Human Rights Commissioner, Mary Robinson, could have political consequences in Australia. Looming over the horizon is a March 11 by-election in the seat of Port Darwin in the Northern Territory being fought on the divisive issue of mandatory sentencing which over the past two years has seen children jailed for stealing biscuits and cans of beer. Robinson is to examine mandatory laws in the Northern Territory and West Australia at the request of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan who visited Canberra late last month. The UN Human Rights Commissioner will investigate whether the laws breach Australia's obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child following the death of a 15-year-old Aboriginal boy in a Darwin juvenile detention centre on Feb 10. The boy from Groote Eylandt, 800 km from Darwin, was the first person to die in custody in the Northern Territory while serving a mandatory sentence. He was jailed for breaking into a Groote Eylandt school and stealing stationery and paint worth 140 Australian dollars.
How Changes In The Lobbying Disclosure Act May Affect Y Our Nonprofit How Changes In the lobbying Disclosure Act May affect Your Nonprofit Congress in 1998 amended the 1995 lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) because of questions raised during its first year in effect. Nonprofit organizations that engage in Dont Run Afoul Of lobbying Disclosure laws. As you can see, these requirements are complex, and nonprofits http://www.kdv.com/management/nonprofit/changes.pdf
CLPI: Public Policy Planning Checklist and might be a source of volunteer action in your public policy and lobbying work Identifythe laws, regulations and public policies that affect the work http://www.clpi.org/ppp_checklist.html
Advocacy By Arts Organizations Tax Laws And Lobbying ADVOCACY BY ARTS ORGANIZATIONS TAX laws AND lobbying. S. National Assembly of Selfdefense lobbying on issues that might affect the organizations own existence http://www.nasaa-arts.org/nasaanews/advocate_lobbying.pdf
Africa: Women's Political Action women's groups, has launched an official review of all the laws that affect them. Thewomen are currently lobbying for change in the law on marriage which http://www.africaaction.org/docs97/sadc9707.htm
Extractions: by Barbara Lopi and Grace Kwinjeh A project that seeks to increase the number of women in politics and decision making in cabinet, local government, parastatals, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as well as in the churches has been launched in Zimbabwe. The two-year-project, launched by the Ministry of National Affairs, Employment Creation and Cooperatives (MNAECC) last month, shows the country's efforts to address one of the Beijing 12 critical areas of concern - inequality between men and women in power sharing and decision making at all levels. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Zimbabwe is funding the project. Improving the representation of women at all levels of decision making is one of Zimbabwe's national priority areas of concern from the global Platform For Action (PFA). The global PFA constitutes, issues that were identified as the main obstacles to the advancement of women. These are poverty, education, health, violence, armed conflicts, economic structures, human rights, media, environment, and the girl child, apart from power sharing and decision making.
ELibrary.com - Fortune, 'EDITORS DESK POWER LOBBYING'eLibrary Is The Subscriptio lobbying RELATIONS WITH THE PEOPLE WHO WRITE THE laws GOVERNING HARNESS RACING Steve Bochnak The Steve Bochnak Firm, Advocate for the Pari-Mutuel Hector Clouthier - former Member of Parliament, now Special Adviser to of relations with people who write the laws in. lobbying really might be rephrased as something like What else to affect or influence what you think your optimal solution to http://redirect-west.inktomi.com/click?u=http://ask.elibrary.com/getdoc.asp%3Fpu
Perspective - Winter '97 - Lobbying Made Easy have a say in the governmental laws that affect us. Almost every day from the nationsCapitol to State offices to local townships, lobbying and legislative http://www.iida.org/communications/publications/perspective/winter97/lobbying/
CFA Legislative Group: Unraveling The Mysteries Of Grass Roots Lobbying are involved with rabies control, or other state laws that might affect breeders. Grassroots lobbying is more than contact with lawmakers, and involves http://www.cfainc.org/articles/legislative/grass-roots-lobbying.html
Extractions: Declawing of Cats Unraveling the Mysteries of Grass Roots Lobbying Grass roots lobbying is the foundation of the American political system. Through this medium, our lawmakers learn what the will of their constituents is, and the manner in which these lawmakers respond is the basis on which they are held accountable. Unfortunately, knowledge of how this system works has allowed small, but well-organized and vocal lobbying groups to exert undue influence, and thus, bad laws are sometimes passed. Once passed, the recourse is limited to the bank-breaking court system or the time-consuming and expensive task of accomplishing legislation to overturn those bad laws. When bad laws are in place, beaurocracy takes over to implement and enforce them; and they then become entrenched in mainstream society. The animal rights movement has made itself a master of grass roots lobbying of motivating people to write letters and to call their lawmakers stating positions on an issue. Despite the small numbers of "true believers," the movement has exerted a tremendous influence on local, state and national laws. Often these laws are passed based on spurious or downright false data and rationale ... but without opposition, and without a means to educate lawmakers to accurate information, the laws are going onto the books all across North America. Pet owners and breeders can, and must, learn to organize their own grass roots groups for effective lobbying. In cities and states where this has been accomplished, the animal rights legislation that would severely limit the responsible breeding and showing of animals has been defeated.
Extractions: By Frances R. Hill, University of Miami School of Law Six Questions for Today's Roundtable: 1) How has the availability of new government funding for social service delivery allocated by the states through their legislative and administrative policy processes shaped the advocacy activities of both secular and religious nonprofit organizations? Have social service delivery organizations had to become more actively involved in lobbying for funding at the state level? Have nonprofits that do not engage directly in social service delivery found it necessary to devote more of their activities to advocacy related to particular state programs? 2) How has this state focus shaped the internal operations of nonprofit organizations and even the structure of such organizations? Are local chapters or affiliates of nonprofit organizations gaining power within national nonprofits as devolution shifts policy discretion with respect to federal programs to the states? How have national organizations balanced different agendas in response to different types of programs in the various states? 3) What are the implications of government funding for advocacy by nonprofit organizations receiving government funding? Does government funding shape the amount of advocacy or cause organizations to tailor their advocacy messages? Is participation in advocacy coalitions affected by government funding? Can organizations competing for government funding work together successfully in advocacy coalitions? Can organizations that do and do not seek or accept government funding be successful coalition partners?
Extractions: Advocacy Bibliography Coalitions and Networks Democracy and Society Funding Advocacy International Studies and Advocacy ... Alphabetical Listing by Author LAW AND REGULATIONS Alliance for Justice. 1999. Worry-Free Lobbying for Nonprofits: How to Use the 501(h) Election to Maximize Effectiveness . Washington, D.C.: Alliance for Justice. Colvin, Gregory L and Lowell Finley. 1996. Seize the Initiative . Washington, D.C: The Alliance for Justice. Corrado, Anthony and Thomas E. Mann. 1997. Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook . Washington, D.C: The Brookings Institution. Hill, Frances R. November, 1999. "Probing the Limits of Section 527 to Design a New Campaign Finance Vehicle." The Exempt Organization Tax Review Hopkins, Bruce. 1993. Charity, Advocacy and the Law: How Nonprofits can use Charitable Dollars to Affect Public Policy Lawfully . New York, NY: Wiley. Kingsley, Elizabeth, Gail Harmon, John Pomeranz, and Kay Guinane. 2000. E-Advocacy for Nonprofits: The Law of Lobbying and Election-Related Activity on the Net . Washington, D.C.: The Alliance for Justice.
Extractions: Information What is FUBA? Florida United Businesses Association (FUBA) is a lobbying and trade association representing small businesses in the state of Florida. As the Small Business Watchdog in Tallahassee, FUBA is both your lobbyist in the State Capitol and your source for education on state laws and regulations that affect your business. Membership Benefits include: ISSUES , FUBA's monthly newsletter, which reports on legislation and regulations that affect your business and explains how to stay in compliance. FUBA's full-time Government Relations Staff lobbies the state legislature for FUBA members and makes sure lawmakers consider the concerns of small businesses when voting on legislation. Visit the Legislative section of the site to learn more. Members of FUBA's Legislative Action Team receive weekly Fax Alerts during the Session to keep them updated on important business legislation.
Extractions: The 2000 Legislature continued last years strong pro-business agenda.. The Republican-led Senate and House of Representatives approved over $500 million in tax reductions, addressed some health insurance issues, and protected last years lawsuit abuse reform act. The major bills of interest to Floridas small businesses are summarized below. Please keep in mind that each bill must be approved by Governor Bush before becoming law. Click on the bill description to check the status of a bill. TAX REDUCTIONS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES Senate Bill 932 - Repeal of the supplemental sales tax dealer fee.
Top Ten Most Effective Lobbying Groups we're in Top lobbies Top ten most effective lobbying groups (Ranked Key issueslocal preemption laws that affect state gun laws; easing restrictions http://www.virginiabusiness.com/magazine/yr2002/jan02/ga_lobbies2.shtml
Guerilla Lobbying For Small Business you want to engage in your own guerrilla lobbying effort to sure you understand yourissue clearly, understand which laws and regulations affect the issue http://www.diversestrategies.com/Guerilla lobbying.htm
Extractions: Small businesses frequently find themselves inundated with laws, regulations, and rules that hamper their abilities to operate and make their businesses successful. These rule can range from tax codes to labor laws to environmental regulations. But, as the old adage says, if you don't like the rules to the game, change the rules. Although our version of democracy in this country is dominated by rich lobbyists and special interests groups, that doesn't necessarily mean that individual persons or businesses are without influence. Don't forget that our elected officials' primary role is to make laws, which is why they prefer to call themselves legislators rather than politicians. Guerrilla marketing was a term coined to help small businesses understand that there were many ways that they could market their businesses on a limited budget. Guerrilla tactics can also apply when it comes to lobbying our government. With the elections now behind us, and many new legislators in the position to influence changes to law, the time to engage in some guerrilla lobbying is ripe.
