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Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and they are
hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 40 — General Assembly

10.

On or before May [15] 31 of each year, a legislative
agent who has appeared before the General Assembly during
the preceding 12 months ENDING APRIL 30 shall, jointly
with his employer, file with the Secretary of State a
written report, signed under oath, setting forth an
itemized account of all salaries, fees, expenses or other
compensation paid or to be paid in connection with the
employment, including fees and expenses paid to
witnesses. A legislative agent who is employed by two
or more employers during the year prior to [May 15] APRIL
30 shall, jointly with each employer, file a separate
report for each employment. If the employer is a
corporation, the report shall be signed by a duly
authorized officer of the corporation. When the
legislative agent is employed for a salary or retainer
which includes services other than as a legislative
agent, the parties reporting shall make a fair and bona
fide proration of the value of the time and effort in
direct legislative activities to other activities of the
legislative agent and shall report the sum so prorated as
compensation and shall further state that the sums
reported are a prorated portion of total compensation and
that the affiants believe the proration to be fair and
reasonable.

12.

The Governor may require any legislative agent and his
employer to file the report required in § 10 of this
article at any time prior to May [15] 31.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 4, 1976.

CHAPTER 460
(House Bill 948)

AN ACT concerning

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