By: Geren, Howard, Button H.B. No. 505
(Senate Sponsor - Taylor of Collin)
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2017;
May 10, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; May 18, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 8, Nays 1; May 18, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to restrictions on lobbyist expenditures from certain
political contributions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 305, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 305.029 to read as follows:
Sec. 305.029. EXPENDITURES FROM POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
RESTRICTED. (a) In this section, "political contribution,"
"political committee," and "political expenditure" have the
meanings assigned by Section 251.001, Election Code.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person
required to register under this chapter may not, at any time
following the date the last term for which the person was elected
ends, knowingly make or authorize, from political contributions
accepted by the person as a candidate or officeholder, a political
expenditure that is a political contribution to another candidate,
officeholder, or political committee.
(c) This section does not prohibit a person from making a
political contribution or political expenditure in support of the
person's own candidacy.
SECTION 2. Section 305.029, Government Code, as added by
this Act, applies to an expenditure made on or after January 8,
2019, from funds accepted as a political contribution, regardless
of the date the funds were accepted.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 8, 2019.
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