By Krusee                                             H.B. No. 3094
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to regulating lobby activity by legislators and certain
    1-3  statewide elected officials.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        Section 572, Texas Government Code, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  Section 572.054(A) REPRESENTATION BY FORMER
    1-8  MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE OR CERTAIN STATEWIDE ELECTED OFFICIALS
    1-9  PROHIBITED.  (a)  This section applies only to:
   1-10              (1)  a member of the legislature;
   1-11              (2)  statewide elected officers except members of the
   1-12  judicial branch.
   1-13        (b)  a former state officer or member of the legislature who
   1-14  ceases service with that agency or the legislature on or after
   1-15  January 1, 1995, may not, for compensation, represent a person
   1-16  before the legislature or state agency for two years after the date
   1-17  that service ceases.
   1-18        (c)  Subsection (b) of this section does not apply if the
   1-19  representation involves the filing of documents or contacts or
   1-20  other relations with the regulatory agency that involve only
   1-21  ministerial acts by the agency.
   1-22        (d)  A former statewide elected officer, except members of
   1-23  the judicial branch, who ceases service with that agency on or
    2-1  after January 1, 1995, may not represent any person or receive
    2-2  compensation for services rendered on behalf of any person
    2-3  regarding a particular matter in which the former officer, either
    2-4  through personal involvement or because the matter was within the
    2-5  officer's official responsibility.
    2-6        (e)  A person commits an offense if the person violates this
    2-7  section:  An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
    2-8        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-13  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-14  passage, and it is so enacted.