H.B. No. 3409
AN ACT
relating to reporting of lobbying activities and changes in
lobbying activities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 305.005(k), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(k) If there is a change in the information required to be
reported by a registrant under this section, other than Subsection
(h) or (i), and that changed information is not timely reported on a
report due under Section 305.007, the registrant shall file an
amended registration [statement] reflecting the change with the
commission not later than the date on which an amended registration
is due under Section 305.0065 or the next report is due under
Section 305.007, as applicable.
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 305, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 305.0065 to read as follows:
Sec. 305.0065. AMENDED REGISTRATION DURING LEGISLATIVE
SESSION. (a) This section applies only during the period beginning
on the date a regular legislative session convenes and continuing
through the date of final adjournment.
(b) A registrant shall file with the commission an amended
registration if there is a change in:
(1) the person who reimburses, retains, or employs the
registrant and on whose behalf the registrant has communicated
directly with a member of the legislative or executive branch to
influence legislation or administrative action; or
(2) the subject matter about which the registrant has
communicated directly with a member of the legislative or executive
branch.
(c) The amended registration must be written and verified
and must contain the information required in Section 305.005.
(d) The registrant must file the amended registration not
later than the fifth day after the date on which the registrant, any
person the registrant retains or employs to appear on the
registrant's behalf, or any other person appearing on the
registrant's behalf makes the first direct communication with a
member of the legislative or executive branch:
(1) on behalf of a person not included in the
registrant's registration, the registrant's last activity report,
or any other registration and 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; or
(2) about any subject matter not included in the
registrant's registration, the registrant's last activity report,
or any other registration.
SECTION 3. Section 305.006, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
(g) For expenditures required to be reported under this
section, the authorized expenditures described by Sections
305.025(3) and (4) include expenditures for an individual described
by Sections 305.0062(a)(1)-(6).
SECTION 4. Section 305.009, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) The commission shall make available on its website an
amended registration filed under Section 305.0065 not later than
the next business day after the date the amended registration is
filed.
SECTION 5. 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, 2011.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3409 was passed by the House on May 3,
2011, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 3409 on May 27, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0,
2 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 34
09 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor