By Ellis S.B. No. 1333
75R6151 ESH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to reporting of representation before state agencies by
1-3 state officers and employees.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 2004.004(b) and (c), Government Code,
1-6 are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The agency shall file the report with the Texas Ethics
1-8 Commission [secretary of state] not later than the 10th day of the
1-9 month after the end of the calendar quarter for which the report
1-10 was prepared.
1-11 (c) The Texas Ethics Commission [secretary of state] shall
1-12 index each report and keep the report on file for four years after
1-13 the date the report is filed.
1-14 SECTION 2. Section 571.030(b), Government Code, is amended
1-15 to read as follows:
1-16 (b) Money in the fund may be appropriated only to the
1-17 commission to administer and enforce:
1-18 (1) this chapter;
1-19 (2) Chapters 302, 305, [and] 572, and 2004; and
1-20 (3) Title 15, Election Code.
1-21 SECTION 3. Section 571.061(a), Government Code, is amended
1-22 to read as follows:
1-23 (a) The commission shall administer and enforce:
1-24 (1) Chapters 302, 305, [and] 572, and 2004; and
2-1 (2) Title 15, Election Code.
2-2 SECTION 4. Section 571.091(a), Government Code, is amended
2-3 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 Section 2004.004(c), Government Code, as that section existed
2-21 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
2-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.