By:  Rosson                                            S.B. No. 743
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to certain information required for registration as a
    1-2  lobbyist.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (f), Section 305.005, Government Code,
    1-5  is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (f)  The registration must be written and verified and must
    1-7  contain:
    1-8              (1)  the registrant's full name and address;
    1-9              (2)  the registrant's normal business, business phone
   1-10  number, and business address;
   1-11              (3)  the full name and address of each person:
   1-12                    (A)  who reimburses, retains, or employs the
   1-13  registrant to communicate directly with a member of the legislative
   1-14  or executive branch to influence legislation or administrative
   1-15  action; and
   1-16                    (B)  on whose behalf the registrant has
   1-17  communicated directly with a member of the legislative or executive
   1-18  branch to influence legislation or administrative action;
   1-19              (4)  the subject matter and, if applicable, the bill
   1-20  number, docket number, or other legislative or administrative
   1-21  designation of the legislation or administrative action that is the
   1-22  subject of the registrant's direct communication with a member of
   1-23  the legislative or executive branch;
    2-1              (5)  for each person employed or retained by the
    2-2  registrant for the purpose of assisting in direct communication
    2-3  with a member of the legislative or executive branch to influence
    2-4  legislation or administrative action:
    2-5                    (A)  the full name, business address, occupation,
    2-6  and date of employment or retention of the person by the
    2-7  registrant; and
    2-8                    (B)  the subject matter and, if applicable, the
    2-9  bill number, docket number, or other administrative designation of
   2-10  the legislation or administrative action to which the person's
   2-11  activities reportable under this section were related; and
   2-12              (6)  the amount of compensation or reimbursement paid
   2-13  or to be paid by each person who reimburses, retains, or employs
   2-14  the registrant for the purpose of communicating directly with a
   2-15  member of the legislative or executive branch or on whose behalf
   2-16  the registrant communicates directly with a member of the
   2-17  legislative or executive branch.
   2-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.