Bill Amendment: TX SB13 | 2025 | 89th Legislature 2nd Special Session
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying activities.
Status: 2025-08-20 - Referred to State Affairs [SB13 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB13-Senate_Amendment_S_2_F2-Men_ndez.html
Bill Title: Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying activities.
Status: 2025-08-20 - Referred to State Affairs [SB13 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB13-Senate_Amendment_S_2_F2-Men_ndez.html
Amend SB 13 (senate committee report) in SECTION 1 of the bill as follows:
(1) In added Section 556.0056(a), Government Code (page 1, line 27), strike "A" and substitute "Except as otherwise provided by this section, a".
(2) In added Section 556.0056, Government Code (page 1, between lines 37 and 38), add the following appropriately lettered subsection and reletter subsequent subsections accordingly:
( ) Subsection (a) does not apply to a political subdivision that spends public funds on an activity described by that subsection if the expenditure is authorized by a majority vote of the political subdivision's governing body in an open meeting of the governing body.
