HARRISBURG — A number of state legislators failed to report freebies from special interests last year, ranging from golf balls to Penn State football tickets to a luxury box at a minor-league hockey game, a newspaper reported.

The Philadelphia Inquirer used information from a new disclosure law to identify more than a dozen cases in which lobbyists reported spending money on lawmakers who had indicated they had not received anything.

The paper said the lobbying firm Greenlee Partners treated Rep. Ron Raymond, R-Delaware, to a suite at a Hershey Bears game, a perk worth $1,230, while an international packaging conglomerate provided $2,000 in golf balls for outings thrown by Reps. John Perzel and George Kenney, both R-Philadelphia.

And Rep. Bud George, D-Clearfield, got Penn State football tickets worth $1,380.

But none of the lawmakers let the public know, as required by law, the paper said.

The report comes amid a fresh debate in Harrisburg about whether to ban lobbyist largesse outright.

"You can't regulate decency, but you can ban political gifts," said Eric Epstein, founder of the Harrisburg watchdog group RockTheCapital.org. "I'm just as concerned about the gifts that weren't reported. There is a thriving black market in political swag."

Starting in January last year, state disclosure rules for the first time required lobbyists and their clients to report how much they spend — over a certain limit — to influence legislation at the Capitol.

The Inquirer compared those reports to separate filings lawmakers make to the state Ethics Commission in which they list gifts or hospitality over a certain threshold.

George amended his ethics reports a day after the Inquirer contacted him. He said Penn State had not informed him that he was in the school's lobbying report, as the law requires.

"If they want to put me in jail over this, then go ahead," George said. "I am tired of this ... place anyway."

Richard DiEugenio, special assistant to the president for governmental affairs at Penn State, said he wasn't certain whether he had notified George. The law is new, he said, and the university is working out kinks in meeting the reporting requirements.