Bill Text: TX HB3285 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to expenditures by the secretary of state on general election voter education programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-10 - Left pending in committee [HB3285 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3285-Introduced.html
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| By: Rodriguez of Bexar | H.B. No. 3285 | |
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| relating to expenditures by the secretary of state on general | ||
| election voter education programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 31, Election Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 31.013 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 31.013. REPORT ON EXPENDITURES FOR VOTER EDUCATION | ||
| PROGRAMS. (a) The secretary of state shall prepare a report on the | ||
| expenditures for its voter education programs for each general | ||
| election including: | ||
| (1) the total amount spent for voter education; | ||
| (2) the name of and amount paid to each vendor under | ||
| all voter education programs; | ||
| (3) the amount spent on voter education advertising | ||
| programs itemized by the language used to communicate; | ||
| (4) an estimated number of voters that the voter | ||
| education programs reached; | ||
| (5) the primary and secondary demographics targeted | ||
| through each medium and in each media designated market area as | ||
| determined by Nielsen Media Research as of September 1, 2017; | ||
| (6) the media designated market areas where | ||
| television, radio, print, or outdoor advertisements were placed; | ||
| (7) the expenditures for each medium in each media | ||
| designated market area; | ||
| (8) the total amount expended on digital marketing | ||
| with an explanation of each form of digital marketing utilized and | ||
| how digital marketing was targeted by demographic, market, and | ||
| language; | ||
| (9) the total number of digital impressions achieved | ||
| in each form of digital marketing; | ||
| (10) the number of digital impressions in each form of | ||
| digital advertising that were viewed 100 percent; | ||
| (11) the saturation and cost per point of | ||
| advertisements in each media designated market area; and | ||
| (12) the name of each organization the secretary of | ||
| state collaborated with or distributed voter education material to. | ||
| (b) The secretary of state may only enter into a contract | ||
| with a vendor that agrees to release the information required by | ||
| Subsection (a). | ||
| (c) Not later than January 31 of each odd-numbered year, the | ||
| secretary of state shall deliver the report to the committees of | ||
| each house of the legislature with jurisdiction over elections. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2017, the secretary of | ||
| state shall prepare a report on the expenditures of the 2016 general | ||
| election voter education programs, including all the information | ||
| required by Section 31.013, Election Code, as added by this Act, and | ||
| deliver the report to the committees of each house of the | ||
| legislature with jurisdiction over elections. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
