Bill Text: TX HB1704 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to filing and publishing lobbyist activity reports.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-10 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1704 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1704-Introduced.html
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By: Middleton | H.B. No. 1704 |
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relating to filing and publishing lobbyist activity reports. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 305.007, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 305.007. FILING DATES FOR SUPPLEMENTAL REPORTS. (a) | ||
The registrant must file the report required by Section 305.006 not | ||
later than [ |
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to Section 305.0071, the report must cover the activities occurring | ||
during the previous month. | ||
(b) A person who made expenditures on the registrant's | ||
behalf that are required to be reported under Section 305.006 or a | ||
person who has other information that is required to be reported by | ||
the registrant under this chapter shall provide a full, verified | ||
account of the expenditures to the registrant not later than the | ||
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due. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 305.0071(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by this section, [ |
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report under Section 305.006 for a month before the month in which | ||
the amount is readily determinable by the person making the | ||
expenditure [ |
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SECTION 3. Section 305.009, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: | ||
(f) Not later than the 15th day of each month, the | ||
commission shall make available on its website the information | ||
included in a report: | ||
(1) filed under Section 305.006; and | ||
(2) covering activities occurring in the previous | ||
month. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 305.0063, Government Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 5. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a report required to be filed under Section 305.006, Government | ||
Code, on or after January 1, 2022. A report required to be filed | ||
under Section 305.006, Government Code, before January 1, 2022, is | ||
governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date | ||
of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 6. The repeal by this Act of Section 305.0063, | ||
Government Code, does not affect an election to file an activities | ||
report under that section that is made before the effective date of | ||
this Act. An election to file an activities report under former | ||
Section 305.0063, Government Code, that is made before the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the | ||
date the election was made, and the former law is continued in | ||
effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect December 1, 2021. |