{"data":{"id":"us-mt/5-7-120","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"5-7-120","heading":"Full disclosure of public expenditures on federal lobbying.","body":"(1) Each quarter of a fiscal year that a state agency or a local government, as the terms are defined in 2-2-102, makes an expenditure for the services of a lobbyist to lobby an elected federal official or an appointee of an elected federal official, the state agency or local government shall make readily available for public inspection upon request a summary report itemizing each lobbying service provided and how much money was spent for each service.\n(2) Each state agency and local government subject to subsection (1) shall:\n(a) designate an office from which a copy of the report may be obtained; and\n(b) post a copy of the report to the agency's or local government's website on the internet, if the agency or local government has a website.\n(3) For purposes of this section:\n(a) \"expenditure\" means a payment by the state agency or local government or a payment by a contractor of the state agency or local government; and\n(b) \"lobbying\" means the practice of promoting or opposing an official action by an elected federal official or an appointee of an elected federal official.","path":["TITLE 5. LEGISLATIVE BRANCH","CHAPTER 7. LOBBYING","Part 1. General Provisions -- Licenses"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0050/chapter_0070/part_0010/section_0200/0050-0070-0010-0200.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:43:55Z","sha256":"9c4eddc99ea884f98f7e388a36e170a59bfe4b98c436de2d6129dd0ff7b6ce43","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/5-7-113","next":"us-mt/5-7-201"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}