Amend Amendment No. 59 to CSSB 1 by Geren (prefiled amendment packet, pages 172-177) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the amendment and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the amendment accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 253.0351(a), Election Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  A candidate or officeholder who makes political expenditures from the candidate's or officeholder's personal funds may report the amount expended as all or part of a loan from the candidate or officeholder and may reimburse those personal funds from political contributions in the amount of all or part of the reported loan.