NRS218H.400. Duty to file; form; contents; itemization of expenditures; audits and investigations.

      1.  Each registrant shall file with the Director:

      (a) Within 30 days after the close of a regular or special session, a final report signed under penalty of perjury concerning the registrant’s lobbying activities; and

      (b) Between the 1st and 10th day of the month after each month that the Legislature is in a regular or special session, a report concerning the registrant’s lobbying activities during the previous month, whether or not any expenditures were made.

      2.  Each report must:

      (a) Be on a form prescribed by the Director; and

      (b) Include the total of all expenditures, if any, made by the registrant on behalf of a Legislator or an organization whose primary purpose is to provide support for Legislators of a particular political party and House, including expenditures made by others on behalf of the registrant if the expenditures were made with the registrant’s express or implied consent or were ratified by the registrant.

      3.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, the report:

      (a) Must identify each Legislator and each organization whose primary purpose is to provide support for Legislators of a particular political party and House on whose behalf expenditures were made;

      (b) Must be itemized with respect to each such Legislator and organization; and

      (c) Does not have to include any expenditure made on behalf of a person other than a Legislator or an organization whose primary purpose is to provide support for Legislators of a particular political party and House, unless the expenditure is made for the benefit of a Legislator or such an organization.

      4.  If expenditures made by or on behalf of a registrant during the previous month exceed $50, the report must include a compilation of expenditures, itemized in the manner required by the regulations of the Legislative Commission, in the following categories:

      (a) Entertainment;

      (b) Expenditures made in connection with a party or similar event hosted by the organization represented by the registrant;

      (c) Gifts and loans, including money, services and anything of value provided to a Legislator, to an organization whose primary purpose is to provide support for Legislators of a particular political party and House, or to any other person for the benefit of a Legislator or such an organization; and

      (d) Other expenditures directly associated with legislative action, not including personal expenditures for food, lodging and travel expenses or membership dues.

      5.  The Legislative Commission may authorize an audit or investigation by the Legislative Auditor that is proper and necessary to verify compliance with the provisions of this section. If the Legislative Commission authorizes such an audit or investigation:

      (a) A lobbyist shall make available to the Legislative Auditor all books, accounts, claims, reports, vouchers and other records requested by the Legislative Auditor in connection with any such audit or investigation.

      (b) The Legislative Auditor shall confine requests for such records to those which specifically relate to the lobbyist’s compliance with the reporting requirements of this section.

      6.  A report filed pursuant to this section must not itemize with respect to each Legislator an expenditure if the expenditure is the cost of a function to which every Legislator was invited. For the purposes of this subsection, “function” means a party, meal or other social event.

      (Added to NRS by 1975, 1172; A 1977, 1529; 1979, 1322; 1987, 831; 1989, 1974; 1991, 2325; 1993, 2588; 1997, 3072; 1999, 930; 2011, 3252)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 218.926)