Enrolled Bill Summary

            During each legislative session, the Texas Legislature hosts a governor for a day ceremony and a speaker's reunion day ceremony to honor a senator and former house members, respectively, for their service to the state. House Bill 2147 amends the Government Code to increase from $100 to $500 the aggregate amount of money, services, or other items that a person or entity may contribute toward the biennial speaker's reunion day ceremony. The bill also allows the chairman responsible for conducting each chamber's ceremony to retain any outstanding balance after the ceremony in an account established for that purpose in the name of the office of the appropriate presiding officer. If the balance is retained in such an account, the bill requires the balance to be combined with contributions received for the succeeding ceremony and to be spent only for that purpose.