By: Kolkhorst (Senate Sponsor - Williams)	H.B. No. 3409
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2011;
	May 5, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on State
	Affairs; May 19, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable
	Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0;
	May 19, 2011, sent to printer.)
	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3409	By:  Fraser

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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 [statement] reflecting the change with the
	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.
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