Bill Text: TX HB433 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the disclosure of public money spent by certain political subdivisions for lobbying activities in a comprehensive annual financial report.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-08 - Considered in Calendars [HB433 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB433-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Shaheen, Metcalf, Button, Bohac, Miller | H.B. No. 433 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 433: | |||
| By: Holland | C.S.H.B. No. 433 | ||
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| relating to the disclosure of public money spent by certain | ||
| political subdivisions for lobbying activities in a comprehensive | ||
| annual financial report. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 140, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 140.012 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 140.012. DISCLOSURE IN FINANCIAL REPORT OF AMOUNTS | ||
| SPENT ON LOBBYING ACTIVITIES. (a) This section applies only to: | ||
| (1) a political subdivision that imposes a tax; or | ||
| (2) a regional mobility authority, toll road | ||
| authority, or transit authority. | ||
| (b) A political subdivision or authority that uses any | ||
| public money to influence or attempt to influence the outcome of any | ||
| legislation pending before the legislature must disclose on any | ||
| comprehensive annual financial report required to be prepared by | ||
| the political subdivision or authority the total amount spent | ||
| during the fiscal year to compensate persons required to register | ||
| as a lobbyist under Chapter 305, Government Code, to influence the | ||
| outcome of legislation. | ||
| (c) Subsection (b) does not require a political subdivision | ||
| or authority to prepare a separate comprehensive annual financial | ||
| report for the disclosures under that subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 140.012, Local Government Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, applies only to a fiscal year of an entity required to | ||
| file a report that begins on or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
