By:  Place                                             H.B. No. 501
       73R457 CLG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to prohibiting former members of the Board of Pardons and
    1-3  Paroles and former directors and employees of the pardons and
    1-4  paroles division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice from
    1-5  representing persons before the board; providing penalties.
    1-6        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-8  amended by adding Section 4A to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 4A.  PROHIBITED REPRESENTATION.  (a)  A person serving
   1-10  as a member of the board or the director may not, for a period of
   1-11  two years after the date the person ceases to be a board member or
   1-12  director, represent any person in a matter before the board or
   1-13  receive compensation for services rendered on behalf of any person
   1-14  regarding a matter pending before the board.
   1-15        (b)  A person, other than a person subject to Subsection (a)
   1-16  of this section, who is employed by the pardons and paroles
   1-17  division may not, for a period of two years after the date the
   1-18  person terminates service with the pardons and paroles division,
   1-19  represent any person in a matter before the board or receive
   1-20  compensation for services rendered on behalf of any person
   1-21  regarding a matter pending before the board.  This subsection does
   1-22  apply to an employee exempt from the state's position
   1-23  classification plan, but does not apply to an employee who was
   1-24  compensated at a salary less than the salary prescribed by the
    2-1  General Appropriations Act for step 1, salary group 17, of the
    2-2  position classification salary schedule.
    2-3        (c)  A former member of the board, a former director, or a
    2-4  former employee of the pardons and paroles division described by
    2-5  Subsection (b) of this section may not represent any person or
    2-6  receive compensation for services rendered on behalf of any person
    2-7  regarding a matter with which the former member, director, or
    2-8  employee was directly concerned during the period of service or
    2-9  employment on or with the board or pardons and paroles division,
   2-10  either through personal involvement or because the matter was
   2-11  within the member's, director's, or employee's official
   2-12  responsibility while associated with the board.
   2-13        (d)  A former member, director, or employee of the pardons
   2-14  and paroles division commits an offense if the former member,
   2-15  director, or employee violates this section.  An offense under this
   2-16  subsection is a Class A misdemeanor.
   2-17        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   2-18  to a person who ceases to be a member of the Board of Pardons and
   2-19  Paroles, the director of the pardons and paroles division, or an
   2-20  employee of the pardons and paroles division on or after the
   2-21  effective date of this Act.
   2-22        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-23        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-25  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   2-26  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-27  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.