By De La Garza                                        H.B. No. 1165
       74R4175 KLL-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to reports filed by certain business entities that receive
    1-3  funds from candidates or political committees.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 254, Election Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Subchapter J to read as follows:
    1-7             SUBCHAPTER J.  REPORTING BY BUSINESS ENTITIES
    1-8        Sec. 254.251.  BUSINESS ENTITY REPORT.  (a)  A business
    1-9  entity that receives an amount that in the aggregate exceeds $1,000
   1-10  in a calendar year from a candidate or political committee to
   1-11  perform work related to a campaign shall file a report with the
   1-12  authority with whom the candidate's or political committee's
   1-13  campaign treasurer appointment is required to be filed.
   1-14        (b)  The report must include the name and address of the
   1-15  candidate or political committee from whom the funds are received,
   1-16  the amount received, a specific listing of the purposes for which
   1-17  the business entity will use the funds, and a specific listing of
   1-18  the amount used or to be used by the business entity for each of
   1-19  those purposes.
   1-20        (c)  The business entity shall file the report not later than
   1-21  the 14th day after the date the amount is received that causes the
   1-22  aggregate amount to exceed $1,000.
   1-23        (d)  The business entity shall file supplemental reports
   1-24  during that year if additional amounts are received from that
    2-1  candidate or political committee.  The supplemental reports must be
    2-2  filed not later than the 14th day after the date the additional
    2-3  amounts are received.
    2-4        (e)  A business entity is not required by this section to
    2-5  disclose information made confidential by law.
    2-6        (f)  In this section, "business entity" has the meaning
    2-7  assigned by Section 572.002, Government Code.
    2-8        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.