Bill Text: TX HB1451 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the information required to be disclosed in a lobbyist registration form.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-21 - Filed [HB1451 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB1451-Introduced.html

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89R2618 MPF-D
By: Capriglione H.B. No. 1451

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the information required to be disclosed in a lobbyist
registration form.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 305.005(l), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(l) The registration form must include a statement of
whether the registrant:
(1) is or is required to be registered as a foreign
agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (22 U.S.C.
Section 611 et seq.);
(2) was required to be registered as a foreign agent
under that Act at any point during the preceding 12 months; or
(3) engaged in activities during the preceding 12
months at the state level that would require the registrant to be
registered as a foreign agent under that Act if the registrant had
engaged in those activities at the federal level.
SECTION 2. Section 305.005, Government Code, as amended by
this Act, applies only to a registration filed on or after the
effective date of this Act. A registration filed before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
date the registration was filed, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.