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I®�® <br />BEST BEST & KRIEGER g <br />ATTORNEYS AT LAW <br />• Certain donors may qualify for a gift exception (e.g., spouse, <br />immediate family). <br />• A donor, besides the official's own agency, needs to be classified in <br />order to apply the correct rule (e.g., third party, charity, or different <br />government agency). <br />4. Do specific gift exceptions apply under FPPC Regulation 18942? <br />• Speech: Meals for the day immediately preceding, the day of, and the <br />day immediately following a speech, and travel within the United States <br />are reportable but not subject to gift limits. <br />• Part Of Registration Cost For Event: Meals included as part of the <br />actual registration or admission cost to attend a conference, training, or <br />event do not have to be reported separately. <br />• Other Government Agency Or 501 (c)(3) Organization: When a <br />government agency$ or a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, pays, <br />advances, or reimburses the cost of travel, including actual <br />transportation and related lodging and meals, that are reasonably <br />related to a legislative, governmental, or charitable purpose or to an <br />issue of state, national or international public policy, these payments <br />are reportable on Form 700 but are not subject to any gift limits. <br />However, when the third party donor is neither of the above, these <br />types of payments, advances, or reimbursements for travel (including <br />meals) are both reportable on Form 700 and subject to the annual gift <br />limit. <br />There are currently 31 specific gift or travel payment exceptions (see Regs. 18940-18946.5; <br />18950.3(b);18950.1(d); 18950.(1)(c); 18950.4 and § 82030(b)(2)). The most common include meals that <br />are reciprocal exchanges made in a social relationship between an official and another individual who is <br />not also a lobbyist with the public official's agency; paid admission by the organizer to an event that <br />includes meals and other nominal gifts such as a mouse pad, note pad or similar item where the public <br />official makes a speech; gifts of hospitality including meals a public official receives in a donor's home <br />when he or she is present and has a personal relationship unrelated to the official's position and <br />hospitality is provided as part of that relationship. Non -reportable gifts also include meals received at a <br />wedding reception or received from a dating partner. <br />e This benefit also applies to a government, a governmental agency, a foreign government, or a <br />governmental authority. <br />-3- <br />09879.00000\9634133.4 <br />