Bill Text: TX SB2233 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the completion of sexual harassment prevention training and ethics training to register as a lobbyist.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-30 - Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported [SB2233 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB2233-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the completion of sexual harassment prevention training and ethics training to register as a lobbyist.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-30 - Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported [SB2233 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB2233-Comm_Sub.html
By: Menéndez, et al. | S.B. No. 2233 | |
(In the Senate - Filed April 27, 2021; April 27, 2021, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; May 3, 2021, | ||
reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 3, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2233 | By: Powell |
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relating to the completion of sexual harassment prevention training | ||
and ethics training to register as a lobbyist. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 305.005(f), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(f) The registration must be written and verified and must | ||
contain: | ||
(1) the registrant's full name and address; | ||
(2) the registrant's normal business, business phone | ||
number, and business address; | ||
(3) the full name and address of each person: | ||
(A) 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; and | ||
(B) on whose behalf the registrant has | ||
communicated directly with a member of the legislative or executive | ||
branch to influence legislation or administrative action; | ||
(4) the subject matter of the legislation or of the | ||
administrative action that is the subject of the registrant's | ||
direct communication with a member of the legislative or executive | ||
branch and, if applicable, the docket number or other | ||
administrative designation of the administrative action; | ||
(5) for each person employed or retained by the | ||
registrant for the purpose of assisting in direct communication | ||
with a member of the legislative or executive branch to influence | ||
legislation or administrative action: | ||
(A) the full name, business address, and | ||
occupation of the person; and | ||
(B) the subject matter of the legislation or of | ||
the administrative action to which the person's activities | ||
reportable under this section were related and, if applicable, the | ||
docket number or other administrative designation of the | ||
administrative action; [ |
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(6) the amount of compensation or reimbursement paid | ||
by each person who reimburses, retains, or employs the registrant | ||
for the purpose of communicating directly with a member of the | ||
legislative or executive branch or on whose behalf the registrant | ||
communicates directly with a member of the legislative or executive | ||
branch; | ||
(7) a certificate evidencing completion of a sexual | ||
harassment prevention training course in the previous two years, as | ||
required by Section 305.0052; and | ||
(8) a certificate evidencing completion of an ethics | ||
training course in the previous two years, as required by Section | ||
305.0053. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 305, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Sections 305.0052 and 305.0053 to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 305.0052. SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION TRAINING. (a) | ||
Each individual required to register under this chapter shall | ||
attend a sexual harassment prevention training course every two | ||
years, as approved by the commission, and shall submit to the | ||
commission a certificate of completion of the course. | ||
(b) The certificate of completion must be in a form approved | ||
by the commission. | ||
(c) The commission shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
implement this section. | ||
Sec. 305.0053. ETHICS TRAINING. (a) Each individual | ||
required to register under this chapter shall attend an ethics | ||
training course every two years, as approved by the commission, and | ||
shall submit to the commission a certificate of completion of the | ||
course. | ||
(b) The certificate of completion must be in a form approved | ||
by the commission. | ||
(c) The commission shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
implement this section. | ||
SECTION 3. Not later than December 1, 2021, the Texas Ethics | ||
Commission shall adopt rules as required by Sections 305.0052 and | ||
305.0053, Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 305.005, Government Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies only to a registration required to be filed under | ||
that section on or after January 1, 2022. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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