1-1 By: Bivins, Shapiro S.B. No. 122
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed December 11, 1996; January 14, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 11, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 2; April 11, 1997,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 122 By: Nelson
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the representation of a person before an executive
1-11 state agency by a member of the legislature.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 572.052, Government Code,
1-14 is amended to read as follows:
1-15 (a) A member of the legislature may not, for compensation,
1-16 represent another person before a state agency in the executive
1-17 branch of state government unless[:]
1-18 [(1) the representation is made in a proceeding that
1-19 is adversary in nature or in another public hearing that is a
1-20 matter of record; or]
1-21 [(2)] the representation involves the filing of
1-22 documents, contacts with the agency for informational purposes, or
1-23 other relations, that involve only ministerial acts on the part of
1-24 the commission, agency, board, department, or officer.
1-25 SECTION 2. Section 572.021, Government Code, is amended to
1-26 read as follows:
1-27 Sec. 572.021. Financial Statement Required. A state
1-28 officer, a partisan or independent candidate for an office as an
1-29 elected officer, and a party chairman shall file with the
1-30 commission a verified financial statement complying with Sections
1-31 572.022 through 572.024 [572.025].
1-32 SECTION 3. Section 572.025, Government Code, is repealed.
1-33 SECTION 4. This Act applies only to representation before an
1-34 executive state agency for which a member of the legislature is
1-35 hired on or after the effective date of this Act. Representation
1-36 for which a member of the legislature was hired before that date is
1-37 governed by the law in effect when the member of the legislature
1-38 was hired, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-39 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-40 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
1-41 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-42 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-43 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-44 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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