AN ACT

 1-1     relating to reporting of representation before state agencies by

 1-2     state officers and employees.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsections (b) and (c), Section 2004.004,

 1-5     Government Code, are amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (b)  The agency shall file the report with the Texas Ethics

 1-7     Commission [secretary of state] not later than the 10th day of the

 1-8     month after the end of the calendar quarter for which the report

 1-9     was prepared.

1-10           (c)  The Texas Ethics Commission [secretary of state] shall

1-11     index each report and keep the report on file for four years after

1-12     the date the report is filed.

1-13           SECTION 2.  Subsection (b), Section 571.030, Government Code,

1-14     is amended to read as follows:

1-15           (b)  Money in the fund may be appropriated only to the

1-16     commission to administer and enforce:

1-17                 (1)  this chapter;

1-18                 (2)  Chapters 302, 305, [and] 572, and 2004; and

1-19                 (3)  Title 15, Election Code.

1-20           SECTION 3.  Subsection (a), Section 571.061, Government Code,

1-21     is amended to read as follows:

1-22           (a)  The commission shall administer and enforce:

1-23                 (1)  Chapters 302, 305, [and] 572, and 2004; and

 2-1                 (2)  Title 15, Election Code.

 2-2           SECTION 4.  Subsection (a), Section 571.091, Government Code,

 2-3     is amended to read as follows:

 2-4           (a)  The commission shall prepare a written opinion answering

 2-5     the request of a person subject to any of the following laws for an

 2-6     opinion about the application of any of these laws to the person in

 2-7     regard to a specified existing or hypothetical factual situation:

 2-8                 (1)  Chapter 302;

 2-9                 (2)  Chapter 305;

2-10                 (3)  Chapter 572;

2-11                 (4)  Chapter 2004;

2-12                 (5)  Title 15, Election Code;

2-13                 (6) [(5)]  Chapter 36, Penal Code; or

2-14                 (7) [(6)]  Chapter 39, Penal Code.

2-15           SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

2-16           SECTION 6.  Not later than September 15, 1997, the secretary

2-17     of state shall transfer to the Texas Ethics Commission all reports

2-18     filed with the secretary of state under Chapter 2004, Government

2-19     Code, that the secretary of state is required to maintain under

2-20     Subsection (c), Section 2004.004, Government Code, as that section

2-21     existed before amendment by this Act.

2-22           SECTION 7.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 3-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1333 passed the Senate on

         May 1, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1333 passed the House on

         May 16, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor