July will be a big, beautiful and busy month for federal lobbyists. Two separate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings are due later this month: quarterly lobbying reports (LD-2) for the second quarter of 2025, and mid-year contribution reports (LD-203).
Each LDA registrant must file an LD-2 report on or before Monday, July 21, to disclose all federal lobbying activity and related income or expenses from April 1 to June 30. Additionally, every registrant—and every individual who is an active federal lobbyist—must file an LD-203 report by Wednesday, July 30, identifying the recipient, date, and amount of certain federal contributions made between January and June of this year. On the LD-203, registrant organizations and individual lobbyists must include any contribution of $200 or more that they gave to a federal candidate, leadership PAC, or political party committee, as well as any payment (regardless of amount) made in connection with an event honoring or held in the name of a covered official in the executive or legislative branch, among other information.
The LD-2 and the LD-203 reports are both filed electronically, using different e-filing systems: LD-2 reports are filed with the Lobbying Disclosure Act Online Reporting portal, while LD-203s are submitted through the Lobbying Disclosure Act Contributions Reporting system. Filing extensions are not available for either report.
You may find more information about these LDA filings in the House of Representatives’ Lobbying Disclosure Act Guidance.
