Bill Text: TX HB221 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of a person to serve as a campaign treasurer of a general-purpose political committee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-13 - Left pending in committee [HB221 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB221-Introduced.html
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By: Stephenson | H.B. No. 221 |
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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) [ |
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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. | ||
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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. |