The third recommendation I highlighted from the commissioner was around adding to your registration all of those who benefit from your lobbying activities. For not-for-profit associations that may have 1,000 members, 20,000 members or 100,000 members, who could be nurses, farmers, etc., all of them would benefit from the outcome of the lobbying that those associations participate in. Therefore, my interpretation, at least, is that the membership list would need to be included in the registration.
The other piece is on volunteers versus paid employees. Since the Lobbying Act was created, there's always been a distinction between paid employees and volunteers. The recommendation that the commissioner put forward would loop volunteers into that registration. For boards of directors I have worked on in the past, with individuals—be they farmers or whoever—who volunteer their time to be on these not-for-profit association boards, now they would have to create their own registrations with the lobbying commissioner, despite receiving zero dollars from the not-for-profit association.
Those are some of the challenges I highlighted.