Bill Text: TX HB306 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 306 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a disclosure on advertisements made by a general-purpose committee of certain political contributions made to the committee.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-15 - Referred to Elections [HB306 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB306-Introduced.html

	82R1744 CAE-D

	By: Jackson	H.B. No. 306



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a disclosure on advertisements made by a
	general-purpose committee of certain political contributions made
	to the committee.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 255, Election Code, is amended by adding
	Section 255.010 to read as follows:
	Sec. 255.010. DISCLOSURE BY GENERAL-PURPOSE COMMITTEE. A
	general-purpose committee may not knowingly publish, distribute,
	or broadcast a political advertisement containing express advocacy
	that does not disclose in the advertising the identity of any person
	who has made political contributions to the general-purpose
	committee that in the aggregate exceed $10,000. The disclosure
	must include:
	(1) the name of the person who made the contributions;
	(2) the city and state in which the person making the
	contributions resides;
	(3) the principal occupation of the person making the
	contributions; and
	(4) the amount of the contributions.
	SECTION 2. Section 255.010, Election Code, as added by this
	Act, applies only to an advertisement that is published,
	distributed, or broadcast by a general-purpose committee on or
	after September 1, 2011. An advertisement that is published,
	distributed, or broadcast by a general-purpose committee before
	September 1, 2011, is governed by the law in effect immediately
	before September 1, 2011, and the former law is continued in effect
	for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.