City of Milwaukee - File #: 031604

• File #: 031604
• Version: 4
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/2/2004
• In control: JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
• Final action: 12/21/2004
• Effective date: 7/1/2005
• Title: A substitute ordinance relating to the regulation of lobbyists.
• Sponsors: ALD. D'AMATO
• Indexes: ETHICS CODE, LICENSES

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
12/17/2013		COMMON COUNCIL	REFERRED TO
12/17/2013		COMMON COUNCIL	REFERRED TO
1/12/2005	4	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED
12/23/2004	4	MAYOR	SIGNED
12/21/2004	4	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
12/21/2004	3	COMMON COUNCIL	SUBSTITUTED; Minutes note: Ald. D'Amato offered Substitute 4 for Common Council File Number 031604. There was no objection to the introduction of the substitute. On the file as substituted: Passed. (Ald. Bauman and McGee voting "No"). Ald. Murphy moved reconsideration of Common Council File Number 031604 for the purpose of offering an amendment. There was no objection. Ald. Murphy moved to amend Common Council File Number 031604 by deleting throughout s. 305-43-6 (page 3) the words "for 2 or more hours within a single reporting period." The amendment Failed. (Ald. Hamilton, D'Amato, Bauman, Wade, Donovan, Puente, Dudzik, Witkowiak, Witkowski, Zielinski voting "No"). On the file following reconsideration: Passed. (Ald. Bauman and McGee voting "No").	Pass	13:2
12/21/2004	4	COMMON COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	15:0
12/13/2004	3	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
12/13/2004	2	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	AMENDED	Pass	5:0
12/13/2004	3	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	AMENDED; Minutes note: Speakers: Mayor Tom Barrett City Attorney Grant Langley Jim Owczarski - City Clerk's Office Orville Seymer - Apartment Association of Southeastern Wisconsin Ald. Murphy moved to amend sub. 3 to eliminate the 2-hour threshhold provision related to paid lobbyists. Failed. 1-4 (Ald. Hamilton, Bohl, Bauman and D'Amato voting "no")	Fail	1:4
12/13/2004	3	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE	Pass	4:1
12/9/2004	2	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
12/2/2004	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
11/30/2004	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
7/19/2004	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR; Minutes note: Ald. Hamilton moved to present a substitute by Ald. D'Amato.	Pass	5:0
7/15/2004	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
7/14/2004	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
7/13/2004	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/4/2004		JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO; Minutes note:  NOTE: Please report back on the legality and enforceability of this ordinance and a determination as to whether this file duplicates existing legislation.
3/2/2004	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
031604
Version
SUBSTITUTE 4
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. D'AMATO
Title
A substitute ordinance relating to the regulation of lobbyists.
Sections
79-51 rp
79-53 rp
79-55 rp
79-57 rp
79-59 rp
79-61 rp
79-63 rp
81-73 cr
305-41 cr
305-43-cr
305-45 cr
305-47 cr
305-49 cr
305-51 cr
305-53 cr
305-55 cr
305-57 cr
305-59 cr
Analysis
This ordinance creates a system for the registration and regulation of lobbyists and their employers. Its provisions include:
1. Lobbying is defined as any attempt to influence legislative or administrative action by oral or written communication with any city official.
2. A lobbyist is defined as someone who is employed by a principal or who contracts for or receives economic consideration other than reimbursement for actual expenses from a principal, and whose duties include lobbying on behalf of the principal's interests for 2 hours or more within a single 6-month period. Exemptions are provided for members of the media, and those who wish information from their elected representatives or to urge their representatives to support or oppose particular positions.
3. Lobbyists shall register with the city clerk in order to engage in lobbying. The cost of this registration shall be $125 annually per principal. A principal who lobbies on his or her own behalf for 2 or more hours within a single 6-month period also is required to register and pay the fee.
4. Those who employ lobbyists shall file a disclosure statement every 6 months disclosing the amount of money and other resources expended for lobbying purposes as well as the matters sought to be influenced.
5. Practices of lobbyists and their employers that are prohibited are identified and violations are made enforceable by the city attorney.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1. Sections 79-51 to 79-63 of the code are repealed.

Part 2. Section 81-73 of the code is created to rea...