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.