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               A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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               AN ACT
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            relating to the reporting of political expenditures made with a  | 
         
         
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            credit card in a political report. | 
         
         
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                   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 1.  Section 254.036, Election Code, is amended by  | 
         
         
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            adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: | 
         
         
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                   (g)  In prescribing the format of a report filed under this  | 
         
         
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            chapter, including a report filed with an authority other than the  | 
         
         
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            commission under Subsection (a), the commission shall ensure that  | 
         
         
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            the report requires for political expenditures made with a credit  | 
         
         
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            card that: | 
         
         
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                         (1)  the expenditures be reported in a single itemized  | 
         
         
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            list; and | 
         
         
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                         (2)  the list include, stated by credit card issuer: | 
         
         
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                               (A)  the name of the credit card issuer; | 
         
         
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                               (B)  the date and amount of each expenditure; and | 
         
         
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                               (C)  the date the credit card issuer was repaid  | 
         
         
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            for the expenditure. | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |