1-1  By:  Bivins, et al.                                     S.B. No. 67
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed November 17, 1994; January 11, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
    1-4  February 14, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
    1-5  8, Nays 4; February 14, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the representation of a person before an executive
    1-9  state agency by a member of the legislature; providing penalties.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 572.052, Government Code,
   1-12  is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (a)  A member of the legislature may not, for compensation,
   1-14  represent another person before a state agency in the executive
   1-15  branch of state government <unless:>
   1-16              <(1)  the representation is made in a proceeding that
   1-17  is adversary in nature or in another public hearing that is a
   1-18  matter of record; or>
   1-19              <(2)  the representation involves the filing of
   1-20  documents, contacts with the agency, or other relations, that
   1-21  involve only ministerial acts on the part of the commission,
   1-22  agency, board, department, or officer>.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  Section 572.025, Government Code, is repealed.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  This Act applies only to representation before an
   1-25  executive state agency for which a member of the legislature is
   1-26  hired on or after the effective date of this Act.  Representation
   1-27  for which a member of the legislature was hired before that date is
   1-28  governed by the law in effect when the member of the legislature
   1-29  was hired, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-30        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-31        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-32  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-33  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-34  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-35  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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