By: Zwiener H.B. No. 47
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to campaign contribution limits for certain offices.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 253, Election Code, is
  amended by adding Section 253.008 to read as follows:
         Sec. 253.008.  LIMITATION ON CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. (a) A
  person may not knowingly make or authorize the making of a campaign
  contribution to a candidate for statewide office or the
  legislature, or to a specific-purpose committee supporting the
  candidate or opposing the candidate's opponent, in an amount that
  exceeds $5,000 for the election in which the candidate is involved.
         (b)  A political committee may not knowingly make or
  authorize the making of a campaign contribution to a candidate for
  statewide office or the legislature, or to a specific-purpose
  committee supporting the candidate or opposing the candidate's
  opponent, in an amount that exceeds $10,000 for the election in
  which the candidate is involved.
         SECTION 2.  Section 253.157(a-1), Election Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a-1)  A judicial candidate or officeholder may not
  knowingly accept political contributions from a general-purpose
  committee that, in the aggregate, exceed the contribution limits
  prescribed by this subsection in connection with an election in
  which the judicial candidate's name appears on the ballot. The
  contribution limits under this subsection are:
               (1)  for a statewide judicial office, $10,000
  [$25,000]; or
               (2)  for any other judicial office, $5,000.
         SECTION 3.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  a campaign contribution made on or after the effective date of this
  Act. A campaign contribution made before the effective date of this
  Act is governed by the law in effect when the contribution was made
  and is not aggregated with campaign contributions made on or after
  that date.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
  last day of the legislative session.