Bill Text: TX HB3396 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the reporting requirements for a person who makes direct campaign expenditures.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-14 - Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal [HB3396 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3396-Introduced.html
 
 
  By: Phillips H.B. No. 3396
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the reporting of certain direct campaign expenditures.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sec. 254.261, Election Code, is amended as
  follows:
         Sec. 254.261.  DIRECT CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURE EXCEEDING $100 
  $1000.  (a)  A person not acting in concert with another person who
  makes one or more direct campaign expenditures in an election from
  the person's own property exceeding $1000 shall comply with this
  chapter as if the person were the campaign treasurer of a
  general-purpose committee that does not file monthly reports under
  Section 254.155.
         SECTION 2.  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, 2015.
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