Bill Text: TX HB505 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to restrictions on lobbyist expenditures from certain political contributions.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-01 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [HB505 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB505-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 505 | ||
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| relating to restrictions on lobbyist expenditures from certain | ||
| political contributions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 305, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 305.029 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 305.029. EXPENDITURES FROM POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS | ||
| RESTRICTED. (a) In this section, "political contribution," | ||
| "political committee," and "political expenditure" have the | ||
| meanings assigned by Section 251.001, Election Code. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person | ||
| required to register under this chapter may not, at any time | ||
| following the date the last term for which the person was elected | ||
| ends, knowingly make or authorize, from political contributions | ||
| accepted by the person as a candidate or officeholder, a political | ||
| expenditure that is a political contribution to another candidate, | ||
| officeholder, or political committee. | ||
| (c) This section does not prohibit a person from making a | ||
| political contribution or political expenditure in support of the | ||
| person's own candidacy. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 305.029, Government Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies to an expenditure made on or after January 8, | ||
| 2019, from funds accepted as a political contribution, regardless | ||
| of the date the funds were accepted. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 8, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 505 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
| 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 505 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 21, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
