Amend CSSB 19 (senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) In the recital to SECTION 2.03 of the bill (page 4, line 42), strike "Sections 572.062 and 572.063" and substitute "Sections 572.062, 572.063, and 572.064".
(2) In SECTION 2.03 of the bill, immediately following added Section 572.063, Government Code (page 5, between lines 8 and 9), insert the following:
SECTION ___. Subchapter C, Chapter 572, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 572.064 to read as follows:
Sec. 572.064. CURRENT AND FORMER LEGISLATORS AND STATEWIDE ELECTED OFFICEHOLDERS: CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT AND CONTRACTING PROHIBITED. (a) A member of the legislature, a person who holds a statewide elected office, or a business entity in which a member of the legislature or a person who holds a statewide elected office has a controlling interest may not employ or contract with another person who is a member of the legislature or who holds a statewide elected office or another business entity in which a member of the legislature or a person who holds a statewide elected office has a controlling interest.
(b) A former member of the legislature, a person who formerly held a statewide elected office, or a business entity in which a former member of the legislature or a person who formerly held a statewide elected office has a controlling interest may not, before the second anniversary of the date the last term for which the former member or officeholder was elected or appointed ends, employ or contract with a member of the legislature, a person who holds a statewide elected office, or a business entity in which a member of the legislature or a person who holds a statewide elected office has a controlling interest.
(c) In this section, "controlling interest" has the meaning assigned by Section 572.053(b).
(3) Add the following appropriately lettered subsection to SECTION 3.01 of the bill (page 5, between lines 53 and 54):
(___) Section 572.064(b), Government Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a member of the legislature or a person who holds a statewide elected office who ceases to be a member or who ceases to hold that office on or after the effective date of this Act.