1-1 By: McReynolds (Senate Sponsor - Harris) H.B. No. 1068
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
1-3 May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the wording of certain political advertising and
1-9 campaign communications.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 255.006(c), Election Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (c) For purposes of this section, a person represents that a
1-14 candidate holds a public office the candidate does not hold if:
1-15 (1) the candidate does not hold the office that the
1-16 candidate seeks; and
1-17 (2) the political advertising or campaign
1-18 communication states the public office sought but does not include
1-19 [use] the word "for" in a type size that is at least one-half the
1-20 type size used for the name of the office to clarify that the
1-21 candidate does not hold that office.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-24 to political advertising and campaign communications disseminated
1-25 on or after the effective date of this Act. Political advertising
1-26 and campaign communications disseminated before the effective date
1-27 of this Act are governed by the law in effect when the political
1-28 advertising or campaign communications were disseminated, and the
1-29 former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-30 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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