Amend HB 4 as follows:
      (1)  Between SECTIONS 11 and 12 of the bill (senate committee
report, page 5, between lines 65 and 66), insert the following new
SECTIONS, appropriately numbered:
      SECTION ____. Section 253.042(b), Election Code, is amended
to read as follows:
      (b)  A candidate or officeholder who accepts one or more
political contributions in the form of loans, including an
extension of credit or a guarantee of a loan or extension of
credit, from one or more persons related to the candidate or
officeholder within the second degree by affinity or consanguinity
may not use political contributions to repay the loans in amounts
that in the aggregate exceed the amount prescribed by Subsection
(a).  A candidate or officeholder may not use political
contributions, in amounts that in the aggregate exceed the amount
prescribed by Subsection (a), to repay any other loan or extension
of credit for which the candidate or officeholder is personally
liable.
      SECTION ____. Section 253.162, Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
      Sec. 253.162.  RESTRICTIONS ON REIMBURSEMENT OF PERSONAL
FUNDS AND PAYMENTS ON CERTAIN LOANS. (a)  A judicial candidate  or
officeholder who makes political expenditures from the person's
personal funds may not reimburse the personal funds from political
contributions in amounts that in the aggregate exceed, for each
election in which the person's name appears on the ballot:
            (1)  for a statewide judicial office, $100,000; or
            (2)  for an office other than a statewide judicial
office, five times the applicable contribution limit under Section
253.155.
      (b)  A judicial candidate or officeholder may not:
            (1)  use political contributions to repay a loan <who
accepts one or more political contributions in the form of loans>,
including an extension of credit or a guarantee of a loan or
extension of credit, from one or more persons related to the
candidate or officeholder within the second degree by
consanguinity, as determined under Subchapter B, Chapter 573,
Government Code; or
            (2)  use political contributions, in amounts that in
the aggregate exceed the amount prescribed by Subsection (a), to
repay any other loan or extension of credit for which the candidate
or officeholder is personally liable<, may not use political
contributions to repay the loans>.
      (c)  The total amount of both reimbursements under Subsection
(a) and repayments under Subsection (b)(2) made by a candidate or
officeholder may not exceed the amount prescribed by Subsection
(a).
      (d)  A person who is both a candidate and an officeholder may
reimburse the person's personal funds or repay loans from political
contributions only in one capacity.
      (e) <(d)>  A person who violates this section is liable for a
civil penalty not to exceed three times the amount by which the
reimbursement made in violation of this section exceeds the
applicable limit prescribed by Subsection (a).
      (2)  Between SECTIONS 33 and 34 of the bill (senate committee
report, page 14, between lines 63 and 64), insert the following:
      SECTION ____. Sections 253.042(b) and 253.162, Election Code,
as amended by this Act, apply only to repayment of a loan or
extension of credit made on or after January 1, 2000.  The
repayment of a loan or extension of credit made before January 1,
2000, is governed by the law in effect on the date the loan or
extension of credit is made, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
      (3)  Renumber the SECTIONS of the bill accordingly.