74R9908 ESH-D
          By Denny, et al.                                       H.B. No. 483
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 483:
          By Denny                                           C.S.H.B. No. 483
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the making and reporting of certain political
    1-3  contributions and expenditures.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 253.001, Election Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 253.001.  CONTRIBUTION OR <AND> EXPENDITURE IN ANOTHER'S
    1-8  NAME PROHIBITED.  (a)  A person may not knowingly make or authorize
    1-9  a political contribution <or political expenditure> in the name of
   1-10  or on behalf of another unless the person discloses in writing to
   1-11  the recipient the <other's> name and address of the person actually
   1-12  making the contribution in order for the recipient to make the
   1-13  proper disclosure <to be made>.
   1-14        (b)  A person may not knowingly make or authorize a political
   1-15  expenditure in the name of or on behalf of another unless the
   1-16  person discloses in writing to the person on whose behalf the
   1-17  expenditure is made the name and address of the person actually
   1-18  making the expenditure in order for the person on whose behalf the
   1-19  expenditure is made to make the proper disclosure.
   1-20        (c)  A person who violates this section commits an offense.
   1-21  An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  Chapter 257, Election Code, is amended by adding
   1-23  Section 257.008 to read as follows:
   1-24        Sec. 257.008.  STATEMENT CONCERNING JUDICIAL CANDIDATES.  Not
    2-1  later than the 30th day after the date of each general election for
    2-2  state and county officers, the state chairman and each county
    2-3  chairman of each political party that had nominees on the general
    2-4  election ballot shall file with the commission the following sworn
    2-5  statement:
    2-6        "My name is (name of person making statement).  I am the
    2-7  (state chairman or county chairman for (name of county)) of the
    2-8  (name of political party).
    2-9        "Any political contribution made by the (name of political
   2-10  party, including county as applicable) to a candidate for or holder
   2-11  of a judicial office other than the office of constitutional county
   2-12  judge or justice of the peace was made from money that was not
   2-13  designated for a particular candidate or officeholder by the person
   2-14  making the contribution to the (name of political party, including
   2-15  county as applicable)."
   2-16        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-17        SECTION 4.  (a)  The change in law made by Section 1 of this
   2-18  Act applies only to an offense committed on or after the effective
   2-19  date of this Act.  For the purposes of this section, an offense is
   2-20  committed before the effective date of this Act if any element of
   2-21  the offense occurs before the effective date.
   2-22        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
   2-23  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
   2-24  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   2-25        SECTION 5.  Section 257.008, Election Code, as added by this
   2-26  Act, applies only to a political contribution made on or after the
   2-27  effective date of this Act.
    3-1        SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.