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 Section 572.025, Government Code, is repealed.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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