Bill Text: TX HB3903 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to certain political contributions by judicial candidates and officeholders and certain political committees.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB3903 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3903-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3903 |
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relating to certain political contributions by judicial candidates | ||
and officeholders and certain political committees. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 253.1611, Election Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (e-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(e) This section does not apply to a political contribution | ||
made to the principal political committee of the state executive | ||
committee or a county executive committee of a political party that | ||
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including political advertising or a campaign communication, to or | ||
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(e-1) This subsection applies only to a political party | ||
required to nominate candidates by primary election. This section | ||
does not apply to a political contribution made, for the purpose of | ||
sponsoring or attending an event, to a political committee | ||
affiliated with: | ||
(1) an organization that has been designated as an | ||
auxiliary, coalition, or county chair association of a political | ||
party as provided by political party rule or state executive | ||
committee bylaw; or | ||
(2) a local chapter of an organization described by | ||
Subdivision (1). | ||
SECTION 2. Section 253.1611(f), Election Code, is repealed. | ||
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, 2017. | ||
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President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3903 was passed by the House on May 4, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 107, Nays 40, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 3903 on May 20, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 122, Nays 11, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3903 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |