By Sibley S.B. No. 1836 76R10023 ESH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain expenditures by corporations and labor 1-3 organizations for appearances by candidates for public office. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 253.098(a), Election Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (a) A corporation or labor organization may make: 1-8 (1) one or more direct campaign expenditures from its 1-9 own property for the purpose of communicating directly with its 1-10 stockholders or members, as applicable, or with the families of its 1-11 stockholders or members; or 1-12 (2) one or more campaign expenditures from its own 1-13 property for the purpose of permitting a candidate to appear at and 1-14 speak to a meeting of its stockholders or members, as applicable, 1-15 or of the families of its stockholders or members. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-17 SECTION 3. Section 253.098, Election Code, as amended by 1-18 this Act, applies only to the appearance of a candidate at a 1-19 meeting of the stockholders or members of a corporation or labor 1-20 organization or of the families of stockholders or members of a 1-21 corporation or labor organization that is made on or after 1-22 September 1, 1999. The appearance of a candidate at a meeting of 1-23 the stockholders or members of a corporation or labor organization 1-24 or of the families of stockholders or members of a corporation or 2-1 labor organization that is made before September 1, 1999, is 2-2 governed by the law in effect at the time the appearance was made, 2-3 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-4 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.