Amend HB 2511 by striking SECTION 8 from the bill and insert 
the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS and renumber the 
remaining SECTIONS accordingly.
	SECTION ____.  Section 253.100, Election Code, is amended by 
amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsections (d) and (e) 
to read as follows:
	(a)  A corporation, acting alone or with one or more other 
corporations, may make one or more political expenditures to 
finance the establishment or administration of a general-purpose 
committee.  In addition to any other expenditure that is considered 
permissible under this section, a corporation may make an 
expenditure for the maintenance and operation of a general-purpose 
committee, including an expenditure for:
		(1)  office space maintenance and repairs;                             
		(2)  telephone and Internet services;                                  
		(3)  office equipment;                                                 
		(4)  utilities;                                                        
		(5)  general office and meeting supplies;                              
		(6)  salaries for routine clerical, data entry, and 
administrative assistance necessary for the proper administrative 
operation of the committee;
		(7)  legal and accounting fees for the committee's 
compliance with this title;
		(8)  routine administrative expenses incurred in 
establishing and administering a general-purpose political 
committee;
		(9)  management and supervision of the committee, 
including expenses incurred in holding meetings of the committee's 
governing body to interview candidates and make endorsements 
relating to the committee's support;
		(10)  the recording of committee decisions;                            
		(11)  expenses incurred in hosting candidate forums in 
which all candidates for a particular office in an election are 
invited to participate on the same terms; or
		(12)  expenses incurred in preparing and delivering 
committee contributions.
	(c)  A labor organization may engage in activity authorized 
for a corporation by this section [Subsections (a) and (b)].  For 
purposes of this section, the members of a labor organization are 
considered to be corporate stockholders.
	(d)  A corporation or labor organization may not make 
expenditures under this section for:
		(1)  political consulting to support or oppose a 
candidate;          
		(2)  telephoning or telephone banks to communicate with 
the public;  
		(3)  brochures and direct mail supporting or opposing a 
candidate;   
		(4)  partisan voter registration and get-out-the-vote 
drives;        
		(5)  political fund-raising;                                           
		(6)  voter identification efforts, voter lists, or 
voter databases that include persons other than its stockholders or 
members, as applicable, or the families of its stockholders or 
members;
		(7)  polling designed to support or oppose a candidate 
other than of its stockholders or members, as applicable, or the 
families of its stockholders or members; or
		(8)  recruiting candidates.                                            
	(e)  Subsection (d) does not apply to a corporation or labor 
organization making an expenditure to communicate with its 
stockholders or members, as applicable, or with the families of its 
stockholders or members as provided by Section 253.098.
	SECTION ____.  The change in law made by this Act applies only 
to a political expenditure made under Section 253.100, Election 
Code, as amended by this Act, on or after the effective date of this 
Act.  A political expenditure made under Section 253.100, Election 
Code, before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law 
in effect at the time the expenditure is made, and the former law is 
continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION ____.  This Act takes effect immediately if it 
receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each 
house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  
If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate 
effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2009.