Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing) in Part 6, Article IX of the bill (page IX-28), by adding the following appropriately numbered section:

Sec. 6.____.  Limitation on Expenditures: Prohibition on Use of Money to Hire Federal Lobbyists. To the extent permitted by general law, a state agency may not use money appropriated under this Act to employ or contract with a lobbyist or lobbying firm as those terms are defined by Section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. Section 1602).