By Zbranek H.B. No. 464 75R1972 DAK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain information that must be disclosed in political 1-3 advertising. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 255.001(a), Election Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (a) A person may not knowingly print, publish, or broadcast 1-8 political advertising or enter into a contract or other agreement 1-9 to print, publish, or broadcast political advertising that does 1-10 not indicate in the advertising: 1-11 (1) that it is political advertising; 1-12 (2) the full name of: 1-13 (A) the individual who personally printed, 1-14 published, or broadcasted the advertising or the person that 1-15 individual represents; or 1-16 (B) if a contract or other agreement was entered 1-17 into, either the individual who personally entered into the 1-18 contract or agreement with the printer, publisher, or broadcaster 1-19 or the person that individual represents; and 1-20 (3) in the case of advertising that is printed or 1-21 published, the address of: 1-22 (A) the individual who personally printed or 1-23 published the advertising or the person that individual represents; 1-24 or 2-1 (B) if a contract or other agreement was entered 2-2 into, either the individual who personally entered into the 2-3 contract or agreement with the printer or publisher or the person 2-4 that individual represents. 2-5 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-6 (b) This Act applies only to conduct that occurs on or after 2-7 the effective date of this Act. Conduct violating the penal law of 2-8 this state occurs on or after the effective date of this Act if any 2-9 element of the violation occurs on or after that date. 2-10 (c) Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this 2-11 Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the conduct 2-12 occurred, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.