Lobbying Registration Year Opened November 1, 2016
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http://www.maryland.gov/Pages/default.aspx
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- (Business Wire)
The State Ethics Commission administers a lobbying regulatory program
including registration, disclosure, reporting and standards of conduct
for executive, legislative, and grassroots lobbying. The lobbying
registration year opens November 1 and ends October 31 the following
year. A registration is only valid for a one-year period requiring a new
registration for each year in which a person engages in activities
requiring registration. Registration must occur within five days of
engaging in such activities.
More than 3,000 lobbying registrations are filed each year
identifying the name of the lobbyist, the employer, and the topics of
the activity to be lobbied. The easiest way to file registrations and
reports is through the Commission’s
Lobbying Electronic Filing System.
The Maryland State Ethics Commission updated its Electronic Lobbying
Reporting system to enable the Ethics Commission to accept electronic
payments. This service integrates the Ethics Commission’s Electronic
Lobbying Reporting system with a web-based and mobile-ready electronic
payment processing service that allows users to pay for annual
registration with a credit or debit card.
The service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and accepts all
major credit or debit cards. Lobbyists needing to renew their
registration can access the Electronic Lobbying Reporting system through
the Commission’s official website, https://lobby.ethics.state.md.us/.
Lobbyists can complete the entire registration process online. If
electronic payment is elected to pay the $100 registration fee, the
registration will be activated promptly following verification by the
State Ethics Commission without requiring the submission of
documentation.
A registrant may terminate his or her status as a regulated lobbyist by:
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Ceasing any activity that requires registration
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Filing a notice of termination with the Commission (no special form
for this purpose)
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Filing the required activity report(s) within 30 days after filing the
notice of termination
Individual counties, school boards, and municipalities may have their
own lobbying regulations. The specific requirements of each jurisdiction
may vary. Each jurisdiction should be contacted directly to determine
the nature and extent of local requirements.
About NIC Maryland
NIC
Maryland builds, operates, maintains, and markets the official
website of the state of Maryland, www.maryland.gov
and its digital government services. NIC Maryland is a collaborative
public/private partnership managed by the Department of Information
Technology (DoIT) and NIC Maryland. NIC Maryland helps Maryland state
and local government entities web-enable their services and operates
without tax funds through a self-funded digital government services
contract. NIC Maryland has developed dozens of eGov products and
services for the state of Maryland since the contract was awarded in
August 2011.
About NIC
Founded in 1992, NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV) is the nation's leading provider of
innovative digital government solutions and secure payment processing,
which help make government more accessible to everyone through
technology. The family of NIC companies provides digital government
solutions for more than 4,500 federal, state, and local agencies in the
United States. Forbes has named NIC as one of the “100 Best Small
Companies in America” six times and the company has been included four
times on the Barron’s 400 Index. Additional information is available at http://www.egov.com.
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Contacts:
NIC Maryland
Janet Grard, 443-924-7405
jgrard@egov.com
Source: NIC Maryland
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