86R16824 ATP-D
 
  By: Shaheen, Metcalf, Button, Bohac, Miller H.B. No. 433
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 433:
 
  By:  Holland C.S.H.B. No. 433
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the disclosure of public money spent by certain
  political subdivisions for lobbying activities in a comprehensive
  annual financial report.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 140, Local Government Code, is amended
  by adding Section 140.012 to read as follows:
         Sec. 140.012.  DISCLOSURE IN FINANCIAL REPORT OF AMOUNTS
  SPENT ON LOBBYING ACTIVITIES. (a) This section applies only to:
               (1)  a political subdivision that imposes a tax; or
               (2)  a regional mobility authority, toll road
  authority, or transit authority.
         (b)  A political subdivision or authority that uses any
  public money to influence or attempt to influence the outcome of any
  legislation pending before the legislature must disclose on any
  comprehensive annual financial report required to be prepared by
  the political subdivision or authority the total amount spent
  during the fiscal year to compensate persons required to register
  as a lobbyist under Chapter 305, Government Code, to influence the
  outcome of legislation.
         (c)  Subsection (b) does not require a political subdivision
  or authority to prepare a separate comprehensive annual financial
  report for the disclosures under that subsection.
         SECTION 2.  Section 140.012, Local Government Code, as added
  by this Act, applies only to a fiscal year of an entity required to
  file a report that begins on or after the effective date of this
  Act.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2019.