S.B. 187 Enrolled

PROHIBITING STATE DEPARTMENTS AND
ENTITIES FROM EMPLOYING CONTRACT LOBBYISTS
2001 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Sponsor: Beverly Ann Evans
This act modifies the Budgetary Procedures Act by prohibiting state agencies from spending
monies on lobbyists.
This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
ENACTS:
63-38-3.1, Utah Code Annotated 1953
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 63-38-3.1 is enacted to read:
63-38-3.1. Restrictions on agency expenditures of monies -- Lobbyists.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) (i) "Agency" means each department, commission, board, council, agency, institution,
officer, corporation, fund, division, office, committee, authority, laboratory, library, unit, bureau,
panel, or other administrative unit of the state.
(ii) "Agency" includes the legislative branch, the judicial branch, the Board of Regents,
the board of trustees of each higher education institution, each higher education institution, or a
public education entity.
(b) "Executive action" means action undertaken by the governor, including signing or
vetoing legislation, and action undertaken by any official in the executive branch of government.
(c) "Legislative action" means action undertaken by the Utah Legislature or any part of it.
(d) "Lobbyist" means a person who is not an employee of an agency who is hired as an
independent contractor by the agency to communicate with legislators or the governor for the
purpose of influencing the passage, defeat, amendment, or postponement of legislative or executive
action.
(2) A state agency or entity to which monies are appropriated by the Legislature may not
expend any monies to pay a lobbyist.

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