By McReynolds                                         H.B. No. 1068
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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 the same size type as the name of the
1-14     office to clarify that the candidate does not hold that office.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-17     to political advertising and campaign communications disseminated
1-18     on or after the effective date of this Act.  Political advertising
1-19     and campaign communications disseminated before the effective date
1-20     of this Act are governed by the law in effect when the political
1-21     advertising or campaign communications were disseminated, and the
1-22     former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-23           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.