By Duncan, Krusee                                      H.B. No. 719
       74R3817 KLL-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the representation of a person before an executive
    1-3  state agency by a member of the legislature.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 572.052(a), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A member of the legislature may not, for compensation,
    1-8  represent another person before a state agency in the executive
    1-9  branch of state government unless<:>
   1-10              <(1)  the representation is made in a proceeding that
   1-11  is adversary in nature or in another public hearing that is a
   1-12  matter of record; or>
   1-13              <(2)>  the representation involves the filing of
   1-14  documents, contacts with the agency for informational purposes, or
   1-15  other relations, that involve only ministerial acts on the part of
   1-16  the commission, agency, board, department, or officer.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Section 572.025, Government Code, is repealed.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  This Act applies only to representation before an
   1-19  executive state agency for which a member of the legislature is
   1-20  hired on or after the effective date of this Act.  Representation
   1-21  for which a member of the legislature was hired before that date is
   1-22  governed by the law in effect when the member of the legislature
   1-23  was hired, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-24        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-1        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.