By Averitt, Greenberg H.B. No. 1893
76R6308 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to limiting the period for making or accepting certain
1-3 contributions before a regular legislative session.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 253.034(a), Election Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) During the period beginning on the day after the date of
1-8 the general election for state and county officers preceding [30th
1-9 day before] the date a regular legislative session convenes and
1-10 continuing through the day of final adjournment, a person may not
1-11 knowingly make a political contribution to:
1-12 (1) a statewide officeholder;
1-13 (2) a member of the legislature; or
1-14 (3) a specific-purpose committee for supporting,
1-15 opposing, or assisting a statewide officeholder or member of the
1-16 legislature.
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 253.0341(a), Election Code, is amended to
1-18 read as follows:
1-19 (a) During the period beginning on the day after the date of
1-20 the general election for state and county officers preceding [30th
1-21 day before] the date a regular legislative session convenes and
1-22 continuing through the day of final adjournment, a person not a
1-23 member of the caucus may not knowingly make a contribution to a
1-24 legislative caucus.
2-1 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-2 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.