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08/03/2005
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The limit and itemized reporting exceptions above do not apply to employees of the General Assembly. Any meal or beverage you consume at a national conference counts towards the $75 limit, if provided by a legislative agent. If you accept between $50 and $75 in meals and beverages from a legislative agent, the agent will report your name on the JLEC filing. If you accept a meal or beverage from the employer of a legislative agent, the employer is required to report your name from “dollar one”. You will be required to include this information in the Non-Disputed Section of your 2005 Financial Disclosure Statement. 
Please be advised that it is your responsibility to ensure you do not exceed the $75 annual limit and properly disclose information on your 2005 Financial Disclosure Statement. If you choose to reimburse for meal/beverage expenditures, please maintain receipt of reimbursement through calendar year 2007. Concerning receptions hosted by employers of legislative agents, you may make a good faith estimate of the retail value of the meals and beverages you consumed. If more than one employer is hosting the event, you need not pro-rate your reimbursement among them, but may simply reimburse one of the hosts for the total value you received. You may reimburse within sixty days of the expenditure. However, legislative agents and employers will be reporting expenditures made in August, not later than September 30th. 

For more information, please see R.C. 102.02(A)(10), R.C. 101.73, and JLEC Advisory Opinion 95-007 (concerning non-disputed information). 

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If you will attend a meeting of a national organization to which the General Assembly, any state agency or state institution of higher learning pays membership dues, please note the following: Members and employees are prohibited from accepting more than $75, aggregated per calendar year, in meals and beverages from a legislative agent. Meals and beverages provided to a member while attending a meeting/ conference of a national organization do not count towards the $75 limit. Additionally, legislative agents and employers of legislative agents do not report the name of any member for whom they have made expenditures for meals and beverages at a national conference. Legislative agents/employers simply report the total aggregate amount spent on meals and beverages for the benefit of members at a national conference.