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Committee begins review of wide-ranging ethics and lobbying reform; ordinance continued for more stakeholder input
Summary
Supervisor Chu and the City Attorney outlined an ethics and transparency proposal that would broaden the definition of lobbyist, require more disclosure, and require major developers to disclose donations to active nonprofits. Stakeholders raised concerns about attorney exemptions, low thresholds for lobbyist registration, and effects on nonprofits; the item was continued to March 13.
The committee opened a broad ethics and lobbying reform package led by Supervisor David Chiu and the City Attorneys Office. The proposed ordinance would expand the lobbyist definition, narrow existing exemptions (including for some attorney activity), increase reporting and training, treat permit expediters as lobbying actors for transparency purposes, and require major developers…
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