Bill Text: TX HB3396 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the reporting requirements for a person who makes direct campaign expenditures.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-14 - Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal [HB3396 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3396-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Phillips | H.B. No. 3396 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3396: | |||
| By: Cook | C.S.H.B. No. 3396 | ||
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| relating to the reporting requirements for a person who makes | ||
| direct campaign expenditures. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 254.261, Election Code, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 254.261. DIRECT CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURE EXCEEDING $1,000 | ||
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| SECTION 2. Section 254.261(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) A person not acting in concert with another person who | ||
| makes one or more direct campaign expenditures in an election from | ||
| the person's own property that exceed $1,000 shall comply with this | ||
| chapter as if the person were the campaign treasurer of a | ||
| general-purpose committee that does not file monthly reports under | ||
| Section 254.155. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 254.261(a), Election Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act, applies to the reporting of a contribution or expenditure | ||
| made on or after the effective date of this Act. A contribution or | ||
| expenditure made before the effective date of this Act is governed | ||
| by the law in effect when the contribution or expenditure was made, | ||
| and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
