By Denny                                               H.B. No. 484
       74R444 ESH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the contents of campaign treasurer appointments made by
    1-3  candidates for certain offices.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 252.0032, Election Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 252.0032.  CONTENTS OF APPOINTMENT BY CANDIDATE.  (a)
    1-8  In addition to the information required by Section 252.002, a
    1-9  campaign treasurer appointment by a candidate must include:
   1-10              (1)  a statement, signed by the candidate, that the
   1-11  candidate is aware of the nepotism law, Chapter 573, Government
   1-12  Code; and
   1-13              (2)  if applicable, a notation that the office sought
   1-14  by the candidate is one to which Subchapter F, Chapter 253, applies
   1-15  <Articles 5996a et seq., Revised Statutes>.
   1-16        (b)  A campaign treasurer appointment that is filed in a
   1-17  manner other than by use of an officially prescribed form is not
   1-18  invalid because it fails to comply with Subsection (a)(1).
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, but only
   1-20  if H.B. No. 262, 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is
   1-21  enacted and becomes law.  If H.B.  No. 262, 74th Legislature,
   1-22  Regular Session, 1995, is not enacted and does not become law, this
   1-23  Act has no effect.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.