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(4) A common trust fund or a trust which forms part
of a pension or profit sharing plan which has more than 25
participants and which has been determined by the Internal
Revenue Service to be a qualified trust under §§ 401 and 501 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.

(o) "General Assembly" includes any member, committee or
subcommittee of the General Assembly or of the Legislative Policy
Committee.

(p) "Gift" means the transfer of anything of economic value
regardless of the form without adequate and lawful consideration.
"Gift" does not include the solicitation, acceptance, receipt, or
regulation of political campaign contributions regulated in
accordance with the provisions of Article 33, §§ 26-1 et seq. of
this Code, or any other provision of State law regulating the
conduct of elections or the receipt of political campaign
contributions.

(q) "Immediate family" means spouse and dependent children.

(r) "Legislative action" means introduction, sponsorship,
consideration, debate, amendment, passage, defeat, approval,
veto, or any other official action or nonaction on any bill,
resolution, amendment, nomination, appointment, report, or any
other matter pending or proposed in a committee or subcommittee
in either house of the General Assembly, or any matter which is
within the official jurisdiction of the General Assembly, the
Legislative Policy Committee or any committee or subcommittee
thereof, or any legislative bill pending or presented to the
Governor for signature or veto.

(s) "Lobbyist" means any person who, within a reporting
period, in the presence of any official or employee in the
legislative or executive branch has communicated with that
official or employee for the purpose of influencing any
legislative action, and who, for that purpose and exclusive of
the personal travel or subsistence expenses of that person or
representative of that person, either incurs expenses of $100 or
more or receives $500 or more as compensation, or any person who
expends a cumulative value of $100 or more during a reporting
period on one or more officials or employees in the executive
branch for meals, beverages, special events or gifts in
connection with or with the purpose of influencing executive
action.

(t) "Lobbying" means the performing of any act requiring
registration.

(u) "Local official" means:

(1) Any official, officer or employee of a county,
the City of Baltimore, or an incorporated municipality, including
members or employees of a board of license commissioners,
determined by the governing body of that jurisdiction to be