1-1 By: Denny, Hamric (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 485
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
1-3 May 16, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the characterization of expenses incurred in connection
1-9 with a meeting of an organization or club affiliated with a
1-10 political party.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 251.008(a), Election Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 (a) An expense incurred in connection with the conduct of a
1-15 meeting of an organization or club affiliated with a political
1-16 party at which a candidate for an office regularly filled at the
1-17 general election for state and county officers, or a person holding
1-18 that office, appears before the members of the organization or club
1-19 is not considered to be a political contribution or political
1-20 expenditure if<:>
1-21 <(1)> no political contributions are made to or
1-22 solicited for the candidate or officeholder at the meeting<; and>
1-23 <(2) the meeting is held at a time other than during
1-24 the 20 days preceding the date of a primary election, the general
1-25 election for state and county officers, or a special election in
1-26 which the candidate is involved>.
1-27 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-28 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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