Bill Text: TX HB2677 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to certain restrictions on contributions and expenditures from political funds by a lobbyist.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 27, 2019 [HB2677 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2677-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to certain restrictions on contributions and expenditures from political funds by a lobbyist.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 27, 2019 [HB2677 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2677-Introduced.html
By: Goldman | H.B. No. 2677 |
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relating to prohibiting certain expenditures from political | ||
contributions. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 305.029, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) In this section, "political contribution," "political | ||
committee," "specific-purpose committee," and "political | ||
expenditure" have the meanings assigned by Section 251.001, | ||
Election Code. | ||
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on the registrant's behalf and with the registrant's consent or | ||
ratification, may not make or authorize, from political | ||
contributions described by Subsection (c), an expenditure required | ||
to be reported under this chapter. | ||
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(1) political contributions accepted by the | ||
registrant as a candidate or officeholder; | ||
(2) political contributions accepted by a | ||
specific-purpose committee supporting the registrant as a | ||
candidate or assisting the registrant as an officeholder; and | ||
(3) political contributions accepted by a political | ||
committee, if the political committee accepted political | ||
contributions described by Subsections (c)(1) or (c)(2) in the | ||
immediately preceding two years. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 253.035, Election Code, by adding | ||
Subsections (j) and (k) to read as follows: | ||
(j) "Personal use" includes making a political expenditure | ||
that is a political contribution to a candidate, officeholder, or | ||
political committee, if: | ||
(1) the political expenditure was made from political | ||
contributions accepted by an individual as a candidate or | ||
officeholder, or a specific-purpose committee for supporting the | ||
individual as a candidate or assisting the individual as an | ||
officeholder, if the individual is or was required to register as a | ||
lobbyist under Chapter 305, Government Code, within 24 months of | ||
the date of the expenditure; and | ||
(2) the political expenditure was made after the | ||
earlier of: | ||
(A) the date of an election in which the | ||
candidate or officeholder loses, if the candidate or officeholder | ||
was a losing candidate for election or re-election and will no | ||
longer be an officeholder; | ||
(B) the date the officeholder resigns from | ||
office, if the officeholder resigns from office; or | ||
(C) the date of the regular filing deadline for | ||
election to the same office the officeholder holds, if the | ||
officeholder does not file to become a candidate for election to | ||
that office or another office. | ||
(k) Subsection (j) does not prohibit a person from making a | ||
political contribution or political expenditure in support of the | ||
person's own candidacy. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |