81R2933 MTB-D
By: Carona S.B. No. 509
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the reporting of proposed publicity expenditures by
state agencies to certain legislative committees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2113.011, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) Not later than June 1 of each year, a state agency shall
provide the agency's proposed publicity expenditures, including
expenditures described by Subsection (c), (d), or (e), for the
following state fiscal year to each standing legislative committee
with primary jurisdiction over the agency. On the vote of a majority
of a standing committee's members, a standing committee may send to
the agency a statement supporting or opposing a proposed
expenditure.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.