FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to authorize the secretary of state to promulgate rules concerning lobbyist registration fees and to impose a penalty for the failure to timely file lobbyist or lobbyist employer reports.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
    Section 1. That § 2-12-3 be amended to read as follows:
    2-12-3. Each lobbyist who registers and is employed pursuant to this chapter shall pay to the secretary of state an annual registration fee of forty dollars for each employer represented by the lobbyist. The secretary of state shall promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 1-26 to set the fee for lobbyist registration. The annual registration fee for a lobbyist may not exceed one hundred dollars. Any fee collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the election education and compliance fund.
    Section 2. That § 2-12-11 be amended to read as follows:
    2-12-11. On or before July first of each year, each registered lobbyist and each employer of a registered lobbyist whose name appears in the directory in that year shall submit to the

secretary of state a complete and detailed report of all costs incurred for the purpose of influencing legislation. However, the personal expenses of the lobbyist spent upon the lobbyist's own meals, travel, lodging, phone calls or other necessary personal needs while in attendance at the legislative session need not be reported. The reports shall be personally sworn to by the person making the report in the presence of a notary public. The secretary of state shall prescribe concise and simple forms for reporting costs and expenses for lobbyists and the employers of lobbyists. The completed reports shall be open to public inspection. The terms, costs, and expenses, as used in this section do not mean the compensation paid by the employer to the lobbyist.

    Any lobbyist expense report filed pursuant to this section is exempt from the ten dollar filing fee prescribed in subdivision 1-8-10(2).