Amend CSHB 2511 by adding the following appropriately 
numbered sections and renumbering the subsequent sections 
appropriately. 
	SECTION ____. Section 253.035, Election Code, is amended by 
adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
	(j) "Personal use" includes the use of contributions to pay a 
civil penalty imposed by the commission.
	SECTION ____. Section 253.041(a), Election Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(a) A candidate or officeholder or a specific-purpose 
committee for supporting, opposing, or assisting the candidate or 
officeholder may not knowingly make or authorize a payment from a 
political contribution if the payment is made for personal services 
rendered by the candidate, [or] officeholder, or a person related 
to [by the spouse or dependent child of] the candidate or 
officeholder within the third degree by consanguinity or the second 
degree by affinity, as determined under Subchapter B, Chapter 573, 
Government Code, to:
		(1) the candidate, officeholder, or a person related to 
the candidate or officeholder within the third degree by 
consanguinity or the second degree by affinity, as determined under 
Subchapter B, Chapter 573, Government Code; or
		(2) a business in which a person described by 
Subdivision (1) [the candidate or officeholder] has a participating 
interest of more than 10 percent, holds a position on the governing 
body of the business, or serves as an officer of the business [; or
		[(2) the candidate or officeholder or the spouse or 
dependent child of the candidate or officeholder].