Amend CSSB 19 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 36.02(a), Penal Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly offers, confers, or agrees to confer on another, or solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept from another:

(1)  any benefit as consideration for the recipient's decision, opinion, recommendation, vote, or other exercise of discretion as a public servant, party official, or voter;

(2)  any benefit as consideration for the recipient's decision, vote, recommendation, or other exercise of official discretion in a judicial or administrative proceeding;

(3)  any benefit as consideration for a violation of a duty imposed by law on a public servant or party official; [or]

(4)  any benefit that is a political contribution as defined by Title 15, Election Code, or that is an expenditure made and reported in accordance with Chapter 305, Government Code, if the benefit was offered, conferred, solicited, accepted, or agreed to pursuant to an express agreement to take or withhold a specific exercise of official discretion if such exercise of official discretion would not have been taken or withheld but for the benefit; notwithstanding any rule of evidence or jury instruction allowing factual inferences in the absence of certain evidence, direct evidence of the express agreement shall be required in any prosecution under this subdivision; or

(5)  an appointment by the governor to a public office if the person contributed, directly or indirectly, to the election of the governor making the appointment more than $50,000 during the two-year period preceding the date the appointment is offered, conferred, solicited, or accepted or the date of the agreement to confer or accept the appointment.