Bill Amendment: TX HB1 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature

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Bill Title: General Appropriations Bill.

Status: 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1-House_Amendment_H_2_346-Cain.html

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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).