By Seidlits                                           H.B. No. 2756
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to reporting procedures under Title 15, Election Code.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 253.037, Election Code is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  Subsection (a) does not apply to a political party's
    1-7  county executive committee that is complying with Section 253.031
    1-8  or to a general-purpose committee that accepts contributions from a
    1-9  multi-candidate political committee (as defined by the Federal
   1-10  Election Campaign Act)  that is registered with the Federal
   1-11  Election Commission, provided that the general-purpose committee is
   1-12  in compliance with Section 253.032.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Subsection (b), Section 253.031, Election Code,
   1-14  is amended to read as follows:
   1-15        (b)  A political committee may not knowingly accept <a>
   1-16  political contributions totaling more than $500 or make or
   1-17  authorize (a) political expenditures totaling more than $500 at a
   1-18  time when a campaign treasurer appointment for the committee is not
   1-19  in effect.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  Section 254.161, Election Code, is amended to
   1-21  read as follows:
   1-22        Sec. 254.161.  Notice to Candidate and Officeholder of
   1-23  Contributions and Expenditures. If a general-purpose committee
    2-1  other than the principal political committee of a political party
    2-2  or a political committee established by a political party's county
    2-3  executive committee accepts political contributions or makes
    2-4  political expenditures for a candidate or officeholder, notice of
    2-5  that fact shall be given to the affected candidate or officeholder
    2-6  as provided by Section 254.128 for a specific-purpose committee.
    2-7        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-8        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.