1-1     By:  Harris                                           S.B. No. 1364
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; May 3, 1999,
 1-4     reported favorably, as amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
 1-5     Nays 0; May 3, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                              By:  Shapiro
 1-7           (1)  Amend S.B. No. 1364 by adding a new SECTION 2 to read as
 1-8     follows:
 1-9           "SECTION 2.  Section 253.032, Election Code, is amended by
1-10     adding Subsections (f), (g), and (h) to read as follows:
1-11           (f)  Notwithstanding Section 253.003 or any other Section of
1-12     this title, a candidate, officeholder or political committee shall
1-13     not violate any provision of this title by accepting any
1-14     contribution or transfer from any out-of-state political committee,
1-15     regardless of such out-of-state political committee's compliance
1-16     with any reporting requirement of this title.
1-17           (g)  Out-of-state persons, including but not limited to
1-18     out-of-state political committees, that make contributions or
1-19     transfers of funds to a political party pursuant to Section 253.104
1-20     or Section 257.002 are exempt from the reporting requirements of
1-21     this title.
1-22           (h)  Any federally-registered out-of-state political
1-23     committee that contributes to a Texas candidate may satisfy the
1-24     reporting requirements of this title by:
1-25                 (1)  filing with the commission a copy of its federal
1-26     registration (Federal Election Commission Form 1--Statement of
1-27     Organization); and
1-28                 (2)  filing with the commission a copy of the
1-29     committee's most recently filed Federal Election Commission finance
1-30     report (Federal Election Commission Form 3--Report of Receipts and
1-31     Disbursements) when a contribution is made to a Texas candidate or
1-32     committee."
1-33           (2)  Renumber the subsequent sections appropriately.
1-34                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-35                                   AN ACT
1-36     relating to out-of-state political committees.
1-37           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-38           SECTION 1.  Subdivision (15), Section 251.001, Election Code,
1-39     is amended to read as follows:
1-40                 (15)  "Out-of-state political committee" means a
1-41     political committee that:
1-42                       (A)  makes political expenditures outside this
1-43     state; and
1-44                       (B)  in the 12 months immediately preceding the
1-45     making of a political expenditure by the committee inside this
1-46     state (other than an expenditure made in connection with a campaign
1-47     for a federal office or made for a federal officeholder), makes 90
1-48     [80] percent or more of the committee's total political
1-49     expenditures in any combination of elections outside this state and
1-50     federal offices not voted on in this state.
1-51           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-52           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-53     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-54     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-55     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-56     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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