By Nixon                                              H.B. No. 2086
       74R6073 KLL-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the offense of perjury under Title 15, Election Code.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 254.036(b), Election Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  Each report filed under this chapter must be accompanied
    1-7  by an affidavit executed by the person required to file the report.
    1-8  The affidavit must contain the statement:  "I swear, or affirm,
    1-9  under penalty of perjury, that the accompanying report is true and
   1-10  correct and includes all information required to be reported by me
   1-11  under Title 15, Election Code."
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.