By:  Ellis                                            S.B. No. 1412

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to conduct requiring registration under the lobbying

 1-2     statute.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subdivision (2), Section 305.002, Government

 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:

 1-6                 (2)  "Communicates directly with" or any variation of

 1-7     the phrase means contact in person or by telephone, telegraph, [or]

 1-8     letter, facsimile, electronic mail, or other electronic means of

 1-9     communication.

1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.