By: Rosson S.B. No. 740
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to certain expenditures attributable to groups under the
1-2 lobbyist registration law.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 305.0062, Government Code, is amended by
1-5 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 (a) The report filed under Section 305.006 must also contain
1-8 the total expenditures described by Section 305.006(b) that are
1-9 directly attributable to members of the legislative or executive
1-10 branch and those that are directly attributable to the registrant.
1-11 The expenditures must be stated in only one of the following
1-12 categories:
1-13 (1) state senators;
1-14 (2) state representatives;
1-15 (3) elected or appointed state officers, other than
1-16 those described by Subdivision (1) or (2);
1-17 (4) legislative agency employees;
1-18 (5) executive agency employees;
1-19 (6) the immediate family of a member of the legislative
1-20 or executive branch;
1-21 (7) the registrant;<and>
1-22 (8) events to which all legislators are invited; and
1-23 (9) gifts, awards, or mementos delivered to all
2-1 legislators on or about the same day.
2-2 (e) If an expenditure is for a gift, award, or memento
2-3 delivered to all legislators on or about the same day, the
2-4 registrant shall report the expenditure under Subsection (a)(9) and
2-5 not under any other subdivision of that subsection or any other
2-6 provision of this chapter.
2-7 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-8 SECTION 3. 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.