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.