Amend HB 3207 by inserting the following new sections,
appropriately numbered, and renumbering the subsequent sections
appropriately:
      SECTION ____.  Section 572.052(a), Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
      (a)  A member of the legislature may not, for compensation,
represent another person before a state agency in the executive
branch of state government <unless:>
            <(1)  the representation is made in a proceeding that
is adversary in nature or in another public hearing that is a
matter of record; or>
            <(2)  the representation involves the filing of
documents, contacts with the agency, or other relations, that
involve only ministerial acts on the part of the commission,
agency, board, department, or officer>.
      SECTION ____.  Section 572.021, Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
      Sec. 572.021.  FINANCIAL STATEMENT REQUIRED.  A state
officer, a partisan or independent candidate for an office as an
elected officer, and a party chairman shall file with the
commission a verified financial statement complying with Sections
572.022 through 572.024 <572.025>.
      SECTION ____.  Section 572.025, Government Code, is repealed.
      SECTION ____.  Section 572.052, Government Code, as amended
by this Act, applies only to representation before an executive
state agency for which a member of the legislature is hired on or
after the effective date of this Act.  Representation for which a
member of the legislature was hired before that date and the
reporting of that representation are governed by the law in effect
when the member of the legislature was hired, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.