Amend HB 3207 on third reading by inserting the following new
section, appropriately numbered, and renumbering the subsequent
sections accordingly:
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:
(A) is made in a proceeding that is adversary in
nature or in another public hearing that is a matter of record; or
(B) <(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, of officer; and
(2) the member discloses to the agency that the member
is being compensated for the representation.