Bill Text: TX HB3409 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to reporting of lobbying activities and changes in lobbying activities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB3409 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3409-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3409 |
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relating to reporting of lobbying activities and changes in | ||
lobbying activities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 305.005(k), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(k) If there is a change in the information required to be | ||
reported by a registrant under this section, other than Subsection | ||
(h) or (i), and that changed information is not timely reported on a | ||
report due under Section 305.007, the registrant shall file an | ||
amended registration [ |
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commission not later than the date on which an amended registration | ||
is due under Section 305.0065 or the next report is due under | ||
Section 305.007, as applicable. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 305, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 305.0065 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 305.0065. AMENDED REGISTRATION DURING LEGISLATIVE | ||
SESSION. (a) This section applies only during the period beginning | ||
on the date a regular legislative session convenes and continuing | ||
through the date of final adjournment. | ||
(b) A registrant shall file with the commission an amended | ||
registration if there is a change in: | ||
(1) the person who reimburses, retains, or employs the | ||
registrant and on whose behalf the registrant has communicated | ||
directly with a member of the legislative or executive branch to | ||
influence legislation or administrative action; or | ||
(2) the subject matter about which the registrant has | ||
communicated directly with a member of the legislative or executive | ||
branch. | ||
(c) The amended registration must be written and verified | ||
and must contain the information required in Section 305.005. | ||
(d) The registrant must file the amended registration not | ||
later than the fifth day after the date on which the registrant, any | ||
person the registrant retains or employs to appear on the | ||
registrant's behalf, or any other person appearing on the | ||
registrant's behalf makes the first direct communication with a | ||
member of the legislative or executive branch: | ||
(1) on behalf of a person not included in the | ||
registrant's registration, the registrant's last activity report, | ||
or any other registration and who reimburses, retains, or employs | ||
the registrant to communicate directly with a member of the | ||
legislative or executive branch to influence legislation or | ||
administrative action; or | ||
(2) about any subject matter not included in the | ||
registrant's registration, the registrant's last activity report, | ||
or any other registration. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 305.006, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: | ||
(g) For expenditures required to be reported under this | ||
section, the authorized expenditures described by Sections | ||
305.025(3) and (4) include expenditures for an individual described | ||
by Sections 305.0062(a)(1)-(6). | ||
SECTION 4. Section 305.009, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) The commission shall make available on its website an | ||
amended registration filed under Section 305.0065 not later than | ||
the next business day after the date the amended registration is | ||
filed. | ||
SECTION 5. 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, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3409 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
2011, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 3409 on May 27, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 34 | ||
09 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |