By Zbranek                                             H.B. No. 464

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                                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.