1-1 By: Ellis S.B. No. 1412
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 19, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 21, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13,
1-5 Nays 0; April 21, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to conduct requiring registration under the lobbying
1-9 statute.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subdivision (2), Section 305.002, Government
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (2) "Communicates directly with" or any variation of
1-14 the phrase means contact in person or by telephone, telegraph, [or]
1-15 letter, facsimile, electronic mail, or other electronic means of
1-16 communication.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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