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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