By: Kolkhorst (Senate Sponsor - Williams) H.B. No. 3409
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2011;
  May 5, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on State
  Affairs; May 19, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0;
  May 19, 2011, sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3409 By:  Fraser
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to reporting of lobbying activities and changes in
  lobbying activities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 305.005(k), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (k)  If there is a change in the information required to be
  reported by a registrant under this section, other than Subsection
  (h) or (i), and that changed information is not timely reported on a
  report due under Section 305.007, the registrant shall file an
  amended registration [statement] reflecting the change with the
  commission not later than the date on which an amended registration
  is due under Section 305.0065 or the next report is due under
  Section 305.007, as applicable.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 305, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 305.0065 to read as follows:
         Sec. 305.0065.  AMENDED REGISTRATION DURING LEGISLATIVE
  SESSION. (a)  This section applies only during the period beginning
  on the date a regular legislative session convenes and continuing
  through the date of final adjournment.
         (b)  A registrant shall file with the commission an amended
  registration if there is a change in:
               (1)  the person who reimburses, retains, or employs the
  registrant and on whose behalf the registrant has communicated
  directly with a member of the legislative or executive branch to
  influence legislation or administrative action; or
               (2)  the subject matter about which the registrant has
  communicated directly with a member of the legislative or executive
  branch.
         (c)  The amended registration must be written and verified
  and must contain the information required in Section 305.005.
         (d)  The registrant must file the amended registration not
  later than the fifth day after the date on which the registrant, any
  person the registrant retains or employs to appear on the
  registrant's behalf, or any other person appearing on the
  registrant's behalf makes the first direct communication with a
  member of the legislative or executive branch:
               (1)  on behalf of a person not included in the
  registrant's registration, the registrant's last activity report,
  or any other registration and who reimburses, retains, or employs
  the registrant to communicate directly with a member of the
  legislative or executive branch to influence legislation or
  administrative action; or
               (2)  about any subject matter not included in the
  registrant's registration, the registrant's last activity report,
  or any other registration.
         SECTION 3.  Section 305.006, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
         (g)  For expenditures required to be reported under this
  section, the authorized expenditures described by Sections
  305.025(3) and (4) include expenditures for an individual described
  by Sections 305.0062(a)(1)-(6).
         SECTION 4.  Section 305.009, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
         (e)  The commission shall make available on its website an
  amended registration filed under Section 305.0065 not later than
  the next business day after the date the amended registration is
  filed.
         SECTION 5.  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, 2011.
 
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