1-1 By: Ellis S.B. No. 1333
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 18, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 11, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13,
1-5 Nays 0; April 11, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to reporting of representation before state agencies by
1-9 state officers and employees.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 2004.004,
1-12 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) The agency shall file the report with the Texas Ethics
1-14 Commission [secretary of state] not later than the 10th day of the
1-15 month after the end of the calendar quarter for which the report
1-16 was prepared.
1-17 (c) The Texas Ethics Commission [secretary of state] shall
1-18 index each report and keep the report on file for four years after
1-19 the date the report is filed.
1-20 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 571.030, Government Code,
1-21 is amended to read as follows:
1-22 (b) Money in the fund may be appropriated only to the
1-23 commission to administer and enforce:
1-24 (1) this chapter;
1-25 (2) Chapters 302, 305, [and] 572, and 2004; and
1-26 (3) Title 15, Election Code.
1-27 SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 571.061, Government Code,
1-28 is amended to read as follows:
1-29 (a) The commission shall administer and enforce:
1-30 (1) Chapters 302, 305, [and] 572, and 2004; and
1-31 (2) Title 15, Election Code.
1-32 SECTION 4. Subsection (a), Section 571.091, Government Code,
1-33 is amended to read as follows:
1-34 (a) The commission shall prepare a written opinion answering
1-35 the request of a person subject to any of the following laws for an
1-36 opinion about the application of any of these laws to the person in
1-37 regard to a specified existing or hypothetical factual situation:
1-38 (1) Chapter 302;
1-39 (2) Chapter 305;
1-40 (3) Chapter 572;
1-41 (4) Chapter 2004;
1-42 (5) Title 15, Election Code;
1-43 (6) [(5)] Chapter 36, Penal Code; or
1-44 (7) [(6)] Chapter 39, Penal Code.
1-45 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-46 SECTION 6. Not later than September 15, 1997, the secretary
1-47 of state shall transfer to the Texas Ethics Commission all reports
1-48 filed with the secretary of state under Chapter 2004, Government
1-49 Code, that the secretary of state is required to maintain under
1-50 Subsection (c), Section 2004.004, Government Code, as that section
1-51 existed before amendment by this Act.
1-52 SECTION 7. The importance of this legislation and the
1-53 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-54 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-55 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-56 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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