By:  Rosson                                            S.B. No. 747
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the reporting of lobby activities by entities employing
    1-2  lobbyists.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 305, Government Code is amended by adding
    1-5  a new section 305.0064 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 305.0064.  ENTITY REGISTRATION AND REPORTING.  An entity
    1-7  that is required to register under this chapter which employs
    1-8  assistants, employees or agents who are also registered under this
    1-9  chapter may elect to report as follows:
   1-10        (a)  the entity may file a single annual report that lists
   1-11  all of the information required under 305.005.
   1-12        (b)  the report shall contain a clear explanation of the
   1-13  relationships between:
   1-14                          (i)  the entity and the clients for whom it
   1-15  makes contact with members of the legislative or executive
   1-16  branches,
   1-17                          (ii)  the entity and its agents, employees
   1-18  and associates who contact members of the legislative and executive
   1-19  branches, and
   1-20                          (iii)  the entity and all persons who
   1-21  assist it in lobby activities.
   1-22        (c)  an entity that elects reporting under this section shall
   1-23  report total compensation anticipated from each client, total
    2-1  compensation to be paid to each person who makes contact with
    2-2  members of the legislative and executive branches on its behalf.
    2-3        (d)  The activity reports required of registrants under
    2-4  Chapter 305 shall be filed by individual registrants who operate in
    2-5  concert with the entity and shall reflect all transactions that
    2-6  would be reflected by the entity report.
    2-7        (e)  Individual registrants who report on behalf of another
    2-8  entity under this section shall be responsible for the accuracy and
    2-9  completeness of the reports submitted.
   2-10        (f)  Changes in compensation, clients or assistants shall be
   2-11  reflected in the individual registrant's reports and amended
   2-12  registration forms.
   2-13        (g)  The commission shall promulgate rules that provide for
   2-14  simplified reporting of lobby activities by entities that employ
   2-15  registrants.  These rules shall allow the reporting of entity
   2-16  structure and activities in chart or graphic format.
   2-17        SECTION 2.  This act is effective on September 1, 1993.
   2-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-24  passage, and it is so enacted.