1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the wording of certain political advertising and
1-3 campaign communications.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 255.006(c), Election Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (c) For purposes of this section, a person represents that a
1-8 candidate holds a public office the candidate does not hold if:
1-9 (1) the candidate does not hold the office that the
1-10 candidate seeks; and
1-11 (2) the political advertising or campaign
1-12 communication states the public office sought but does not include
1-13 [use] the word "for" in a type size that is at least one-half the
1-14 type size used for the name of the office to clarify that the
1-15 candidate does not hold that office.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-17 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-18 to political advertising and campaign communications disseminated
1-19 on or after the effective date of this Act. Political advertising
1-20 and campaign communications disseminated before the effective date
1-21 of this Act are governed by the law in effect when the political
1-22 advertising or campaign communications were disseminated, and the
1-23 former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-24 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1068 was passed by the House on May
4, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1068 was passed by the Senate on May
20, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor