Background: Someone who encourages another person to engage in an influence campaign and pays that person at least $500 in a year would be required to file with the Indiana Lobby Registration Commission within 24 hours of handing over the cash, beginning July 1. First Amendment advocates warned that the legislation could infringe upon constitutionally protected paid advocacy. Outrage over allegedly compensated paid advocacy is growing nationwide, although fact-checkers like Politifact have repeatedly found such accusations aren't supported by evidence.