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.