By:  Uresti (Senate Sponsor - Van de Putte)                       H.B. No. 1071
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 2005; 
April 18, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on State 
Affairs; May 17, 2005, reported favorably by the following vote:  
Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 17, 2005, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to the format in which certain reports of political 
contributions and expenditures are filed.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 254.036(a), Election Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	(a)  Each report filed under this chapter with an authority 
other than the commission must be in a format [on a form] prescribed 
by the commission.  A report filed with the commission that is not 
required to be filed by computer diskette, modem, or other means of 
electronic transfer must be on a form prescribed by the commission
and [must be] written in black ink or typed with black typewriter 
ribbon or, if [unless the report is a computer printout.  If] the 
report is a computer printout, the printout must conform to the same 
format and paper size as the form prescribed by the commission.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           



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