84R7293 MK-D
By: Davis of Harris H.B. No. 3515
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to reporting of certain expenditures by registered
lobbyists.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 305.0062(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The report filed under Section 305.006 must also contain
the total expenditures described by Section 305.006(b) that are
directly attributable to members of the legislative or executive
branch. The expenditures must be stated in only one of the
following categories:
(1) state senators;
(2) state representatives;
(3) elected or appointed state officers, other than
those described by Subdivision (1) or (2);
(4) legislative agency employees;
(5) executive agency employees;
(6) the immediate family of a member of the
legislative or executive branch;
(7) guests, when invited by an individual described by
Subdivision (1), (2), (3), (4), or (5); and
(8) events to which:
(A) all legislators are invited;
(B) a legislative committee and the staff of the
legislative committee are invited;
(C) state senators and the staff of state
senators are invited;
(D) state representatives and the staff of state
representatives are invited; and
(E) all legislative staff are invited.
SECTION 2. Section 305.0062, Government Code, as amended by
this Act, applies only to a report required to be filed under
Section 305.006, Government Code, on or after the effective date of
this Act. A report required to be filed under Section 305.006,
Government Code, before the effective date of this Act is governed
by the law in effect on the date the report is due, and the former
law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.