lobbyists; political contributions prohibited

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HB2818: New Rules for Lobbyists

This bill updates Arizona law to ban certain types of payments and lobbying activities by former government workers, lobbyists, and political staff.

What This Bill Does

• Bans paying or accepting payment that depends on whether a specific law passes or fails.
• Stops former state senators or representatives from lobbying the legislature for one year after they leave office.
• Prohibits trying to influence lawmakers by contacting their employers in an improper way.
• Prevents people who worked with significant buying power at public agencies from lobbying those same agencies within one year of leaving.
• Bars individuals paid by political committees during the year before a legislative session starts from lobbying that legislature.

Who It Names or Affects

• Lobbyists and anyone hired to influence laws
• Former members of the Arizona Senate or House of Representatives
• Employees who held significant procurement roles at public bodies
• Paid staff of candidate committees, political action committees, or independent expenditure committees

Terms To Know

Lobbying

Trying to influence lawmakers on legislation.

Contingent compensation

Payment that depends on a specific result, like passing or defeating a law.

Procurement role

A job with significant power to buy materials, services, or construction for the government.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not state when these rules will officially take effect.
• This summary only covers changes to section 41-1233 and may not include other related laws.

Official Summary Text

HB2818 - lobbyists; political contributions prohibited

Current Bill Text

HB2818 - 572R - I Ver

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lobbyists; political contributions prohibited

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2818

Introduced by

Representative
Cavero

AN
ACT

amending section 41-1233, Arizona
Revised Statutes; relating to registration and regulation of lobbyists.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 41-1233, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

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41-1233.

Prohibited acts

No person shall:

1. Retain or employ another person to promote or
oppose legislation for compensation contingent in whole or in part on the
passage or defeat of any legislation, or the approval or veto of any
legislation by the governor, and no person shall accept employment or render
service for compensation on a contingent basis.

2. Lobby the legislature for compensation within one
year after the person ceases to be a member of the senate or house of
representatives.

3. In any manner improperly seek to influence the
vote of any member of the legislature through communication with that member's
employer.

4. Lobby the public body that employed the person in
a capacity having a significant procurement role as defined in section 41-741
in the procurement of materials, services or construction within one year after
the person ceases to be employed by the public body.

5. Lobby the legislature if the
person has been a paid employee of or received compensation from a candidate
committee, a political action committee or an independent expenditure committee
during the one-year period immediately preceding the beginning of a
regular session of that legislature. For the purposes of this
paragraph, "candidate committee" and "political action
committee" have the same meanings prescribed in section 16-901.
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