84R1313 MK-D
By: Stephenson H.B. No. 221
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the eligibility of a person to serve as a campaign
treasurer of a general-purpose political committee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 252.0011, Election Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (a), (b), and (c) and adding Subsections
(a-1) and (a-2) to read as follows:
(a) In this section, "election cycle" means the period
beginning on January 1 of an odd-numbered year and ending on
December 31 of the following even-numbered year.
(a-1) Except as provided by Subsection (b) or (c), a person
is ineligible for appointment as a campaign treasurer if the person
is the campaign treasurer of a political committee that does not
file a report required by Chapter 254.
(a-2) A person is ineligible for appointment as a campaign
treasurer of a general-purpose committee if the commission imposed
a civil penalty on the person during:
(1) the election cycle preceding the election cycle in
which the person seeks to become a campaign treasurer; or
(2) any previous election cycle if any amount of that
civil penalty remained unpaid during the election cycle preceding
the election cycle in which the person seeks to become a campaign
treasurer.
(b) The period for which a person is ineligible under
Subsection (a-1) [(a)] for appointment as a campaign treasurer ends
on the date on which the political committee in connection with
which the person's ineligibility arose has filed each report
required by Chapter 254 that was not timely filed or, subject to
Subsection (a-2), has paid all fines and penalties in connection
with the failure to file the report.
(c) Subsection (a-1) [(a)] does not apply to a person if, in
any semiannual reporting period prescribed by Chapter 254:
(1) the political committee in connection with which
the person's ineligibility arose did not accept political
contributions that in the aggregate exceed $5,000 or make political
expenditures that in the aggregate exceed $5,000; and
(2) the candidate who or political committee that
subsequently appoints the person does not accept political
contributions that in the aggregate exceed $5,000 or make political
expenditures that in the aggregate exceed $5,000.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.