By:  Rosson                                            S.B. No. 739
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the amendment of certain reports required by law.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 254, Election Code, is
    1-4  amended by adding Section 254.043 to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 254.043.  AMENDMENT OF SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE AND
    1-6  CORRECT REPORTS.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a
    1-7  person required to file a statement, report, or other disclosure
    1-8  under this title may amend that report within a reasonable time,
    1-9  without penalty, if the original filing was substantially complete
   1-10  and correct.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 305, Government Code, is
   1-12  amended by adding Section 305.0064 to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 305.0064.  AMENDMENT OF SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE AND
   1-14  CORRECT REPORTS.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a
   1-15  person required to file a statement, report, or other disclosure
   1-16  under this chapter may amend that report within a reasonable time,
   1-17  without penalty, if the original filing was substantially complete
   1-18  and correct.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  Chapter 421, Acts of the 63rd Legislature,
   1-20  Regular Session, 1973 (Article 6252-9b, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-21  Statutes), is amended by adding Section 12C to read as follows:
   1-22        Sec. 12C.  AMENDMENT OF SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE AND CORRECT
   1-23  REPORTS.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person
    2-1  required to file a statement, report, or other disclosure under
    2-2  this Act may amend that report within a reasonable time, without
    2-3  penalty, if the original filing was substantially complete and
    2-4  correct.
    2-5        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-6        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.