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Amend CSHB 300 by inserting the following new SECTIONS,
appropriately numbered, to ARTICLE 4 of the bill, and renumbering
the subsequent SECTIONS of that ARTICLE accordingly:
SECTION 4.____. Subchapter A, Chapter 223, Transportation
Code, is amended by adding Section 223.0043 to read as follows:
Sec. 223.0043. DISCLOSURE OF POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND
LOBBYING EXPENDITURES. (a) In this section:
(1) "Lobbying expenditure" means an expenditure that
is reportable under Chapter 305, Government Code.
(2) "Political committee" and "political
contribution" have the meanings assigned by Section 251.001,
Election Code.
(b) For purposes of this section, an individual has a
substantial financial interest in a business entity if the
individual:
(1) has a controlling interest in the business entity;
(2) owns more than 10 percent of the voting interest in
the business entity;
(3) owns more than $25,000 of the fair market value of
the business entity;
(4) has a direct or indirect participating interest by
shares, stock, or otherwise, regardless of whether voting rights
are included, in more than 10 percent of the profits, proceeds, or
capital gains of the business entity;
(5) is a member of the board of directors or other
governing board of the business entity; or
(6) serves as an elected officer of the business
entity.
(c) Not later than the 30th day after the date a business
entity submits a bid under this subchapter, the entity shall
disclose in writing to the director or the director's designee:
(1) each political contribution of $1,000 or more that
is made to a candidate, officeholder, or political committee
required to file reports under Chapter 254, Election Code, with the
Texas Ethics Commission during the four years preceding the date of
the bid by:
(A) the business entity;
(B) an individual who has a substantial financial
interest in the business entity; or
(C) a political committee established or
administered by the business entity or by an individual described
by Paragraph (B); and
(2) each lobbying expenditure made during the four
years preceding the date of the bid by or on behalf of the business
entity.
(d) A business entity that has not made a political
contribution or a lobbying expenditure that must be disclosed under
Subsection (c) shall, within the time prescribed by that
subsection, deliver to the director or the director's designee a
written statement that the business entity has not made a political
contribution or lobbying expenditure that must be disclosed.
(e) On receipt of information under Subsection (c) or (d),
the department shall promptly publish the information on the
department's Internet website.
(f) The commission may not consider a bid submitted by a
business entity that does not comply with this section.
SECTION 4.____. Section 223.0043, Transportation Code, as
added by this Act, applies only to a bid submitted for a contract as
to which the initial notice under Section 223.002, Transportation
Code, is published on or after September 1, 2009.