SEC. 2.116. LOBBYIST TRAINING.
§ 2.116
Contact lobbyists must complete a training session offered by the Ethics Commission within one year of initial registration, with additional training at the Executive Director's discretion. The Commission must make training available online, and lobbyists must file a sworn declaration confirming completion by the deadline.
If you register as a lobbyist in San Francisco, you have to take a training class run by the Ethics Commission within your first year. After that, the Executive Director can require you to take more training whenever they decide it's necessary. The Ethics Commission has to offer these trainings on its website. Each time you're required to take training, you have to sign and file a statement with the Ethics Commission saying you completed it—and you're swearing under penalty of perjury that you're telling the truth.
- Complex:The Executive Director's open-ended discretion to require 'additional training sessions' without defined criteria, frequency, or standards could be unclear in application.
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Official text
(a) Each contact lobbyist must complete a lobbyist training session offered by the Ethics Commission within one year of the lobbyist’s initial registration. Thereafter, contact lobbyists shall attend additional training sessions as required by the Executive Director, at his or her discretion.
(b) The Ethics Commission shall make lobbyist training sessions available on its website.
(c) On or before the deadline for completing any required lobbyist training session, each contact lobbyist must file a signed declaration with the Ethics Commission stating, under penalty of perjury, that the lobbyist has completed the required training session.
(Added by Ord. 235-09, File No. 090833, App. 11/10/2009; amended by Ord. 98-14 , File No. 130374, App. 6/26/2014, Eff. 7/26/2014; Prop. C, App. 11/3/2015, Oper. 2/1/2016; re-enacted by Proposition D, 3/5/2024, Eff. 4/12/2024, Oper. 10/12/2024)