Bill Text: TX HB2984 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to lobbying expenditures that are made jointly.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB2984 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2984-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 2984

AN ACT
relating to lobbying expenditures that are made jointly.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 305.0021(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) For purposes of Section 36.02 or 36.10, Penal Code, a
person described by Subsection (a)(2)(A) is not considered to have
made an expenditure [the amount of a joint expenditure that is
attributed to a person who is not a registrant is not an expenditure
made and reported] in accordance with this chapter.
SECTION 2. The amendment made by this Act to Section
305.0021(b), Government Code, is intended to clarify rather than
change existing law.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2984 was passed by the House on April
25, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 1, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2984 was passed by the Senate on May
22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor