By Ellis S.B. No. 1412
75R2174 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to conduct requiring registration under the lobbying
1-3 statute.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 305.002(2), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (2) "Communicates directly with" or any variation of
1-8 the phrase means contact in person or by telephone, telegraph, [or]
1-9 letter, facsimile, electronic mail, or other electronic means of
1-10 communication.
1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.