Amend HB 2611 (Senate Committee Report) by adding the
following appropriately numbered sections to the bill and
renumbering subsequent sections of the bill appropriately:
      SECTION ____.  Section 254.064, Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
      Sec. 254.064.  ADDITIONAL REPORTS OF OPPOSED CANDIDATE.
(a)  In addition to the other required reports, for each election
in which a person is a candidate and has an opponent whose name is
to appear on the ballot, the person shall file four <two> reports.
      (b)  The first report shall be filed not later than the 30th
day before election day.  The report covers the period beginning
the day the candidate's campaign treasurer appointment is filed or
the first day after the period covered by the last report required
to be filed under this chapter, as applicable, and continuing
through the 40th day before election day.
      (c)  The second report shall be filed not later than the 18th
day before election day.  The report covers the period beginning
the 39th day before election day and continuing through the 21st
day before election day.
      (d)  The third report shall be filed not later than the 11th
day before election day.  The report covers the period beginning
the 20th day before election day and continuing through the 14th
day before election day.
      (e)  The fourth report shall be filed not later than the
fourth <eighth> day before election day.  The report covers the
period beginning the 13th <39th> day before election day and
continuing through the 7th <10th> day before election day.
      (f) <(d)>  If a person becomes an opposed candidate after a
reporting period prescribed by Subsection (b), <or> (c), (d), or
(e), the person shall file the person's first report not later than
the regular deadline for the report covering the period which the
person becomes an opposed candidate.  The period covered by the
first report begins the day the candidate's campaign treasurer
appointment is filed.
      (g) <(e)>  In addition to other required reports, an opposed
candidate in a runoff election shall file one report for that
election.  The runoff election report shall be filed not later than
the eighth day before runoff election day.  The report covers the
period beginning the sixth <ninth> day before the date of the main
election and continuing through the 10th day before runoff election
day.
      SECTION ____.  Section 254.064, Election Code, as amended by
this Act, applies only to a report required to be filed under
Chapter 254, Election Code, on or after January 1, 2000.  A report
required to be filed under Chapter 254, Election Code, before
January 1, 2000, may be filed in compliance with Section 254.064,
Election Code, as that section existed before amendment by this
Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.