WYOMING

A flow chart depicting the registration options is available on the Secretary of State’s website under the link for the “Registration and Reporting Process” here: Lobbyists need to renew their registrations each registration cycle if they continue to lobby in the next session. [...] If you do need to file a Lobbyist Activity Report the answer to that question should be the name of your organization, not the names of any of your donors. [...] Paid Advertising to Influence Legislation Report: This report, the requirement for which was added on to the end of the lobbyist statute, is a little out of place in the Wyoming lobbyist regime because it borrows language from the state election code – similar language was originally drafted to cover disclosure of paid advertising relating to ballot referendum legislation. [...] (You can access the original by navigating to Section 22- 24-201 in this pdf of the Elections Code: ) We can look to the definitions of paid advertising in any “communications medium” and “printed literature” from that statute to try to understand better the kinds of expenditures that the State might be expecting in this report. [...] As described, the Student Engagement activities will trigger the need to file one Paid Advertising and Printed Literature Report for the organization at the end of the year.