By Turner of Harris                                   H.B. No. 1811
       74R4258 KLL-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to resumes filed by candidates for public office;
    1-3  providing a criminal penalty.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 255, Election Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Section 255.008 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 255.008.  CANDIDATE RESUME.  (a)  A candidate shall file
    1-8  a resume with the authority with whom the candidate's campaign
    1-9  treasurer appointment is required to be filed.
   1-10        (b)  The candidate's resume must list educational experience,
   1-11  work experience, professional credentials, public offices held, and
   1-12  organizations of which the candidate is a member if the candidate
   1-13  includes or intends to include that information in the candidate's
   1-14  political advertising, interviews, questionnaires, or speeches.
   1-15        (c)  The resume must be filed not later than the 10th day
   1-16  after the date the candidate:
   1-17              (1)  files an application for a place on a ballot;
   1-18              (2)  files an application for nomination by convention;
   1-19  or
   1-20              (3)  files a declaration of intent to become an
   1-21  independent candidate or files a declaration of write-in candidacy.
   1-22        (d)  If the candidate includes information covered by
   1-23  Subsection (b) in political advertising or in an interview,
   1-24  questionnaire, or speech and that information is not listed on the
    2-1  resume, the candidate shall file an amended resume that lists that
    2-2  information not later than the fifth day after the date that
    2-3  information is included in the political advertising, interview,
    2-4  questionnaire, or speech.
    2-5        (e)  A person commits an offense if the person fails to file
    2-6  the resume as required by this section, lists information covered
    2-7  by Subsection (b) in the resume and that information is false, or
    2-8  includes information covered by Subsection (b) in political
    2-9  advertising or an interview, questionnaire, or speech and fails to
   2-10  list that information in the resume as required by this section.
   2-11  An offense under this subsection is a Class C misdemeanor.
   2-12        (f)  Venue for an offense under this section is in the county
   2-13  in which the resume is required to be filed.
   2-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-15        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.