The District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics pursuant to the authority set forth in D.C. Official Code § 1-1103.01 (b-1) (1) (2011 Repl.), hereby gives notice of its intent to adopt the following amendments to chapter 31, Lobbying, of title 3 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations no less than thirty (30) days from the date of the publication of this notice in the D.C. Register.

The proposed amendments represent updates to the rules of the Board’s Office of Campaign Finance (OCF). Specifically, the rules will require each person who registers as a lobbyist pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 1-1105.02 (2011 Repl.), to pay a registration fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); if the lobbyist lobbies solely for non-profit organizations, the fee is fifty dollars ($50). This change was mandated by section 1271of the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Support Act of 2009, effective March 3, 2010 (D.C. Law 18-111; D.C. Official Code § 1-1105.02).

See the attached Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.