By Denny, Hamric H.B. No. 485
74R3002 KLL-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the characterization of expenses incurred in connection
1-3 with a meeting of an organization or club affiliated with a
1-4 political party.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 251.008(a), Election Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (a) An expense incurred in connection with the conduct of a
1-9 meeting of an organization or club affiliated with a political
1-10 party at which a candidate for an office regularly filled at the
1-11 general election for state and county officers, or a person holding
1-12 that office, appears before the members of the organization or club
1-13 is not considered to be a political contribution or political
1-14 expenditure if<:>
1-15 <(1)> no political contributions are made to or
1-16 solicited for the candidate or officeholder at the meeting<; and>
1-17 <(2) the meeting is held at a time other than during
1-18 the 20 days preceding the date of a primary election, the general
1-19 election for state and county officers, or a special election in
1-20 which the candidate is involved>.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.