Bill Text: TX HB686 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to required disclosures on certain political advertising by political committees; providing a civil penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB686 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB686-Introduced.html
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| By: Leo Wilson | H.B. No. 686 | |
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| relating to required disclosures on certain political advertising | ||
| by political committees; providing a civil penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 255, Election Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 255.009 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 255.009. REQUIRED DISCLOSURE ON CERTAIN POLITICAL | ||
| ADVERTISING BY POLITICAL COMMITTEES; CIVIL PENALTY. (a) A | ||
| political committee may not publish, distribute, or broadcast | ||
| political advertising supporting a slate of five or more candidates | ||
| who made a contribution to the political committee for the purpose | ||
| of obtaining that support unless the political advertising includes | ||
| a disclosure statement indicating: | ||
| (1) the full name of each candidate the political | ||
| advertising supports; | ||
| (2) that the candidates made a contribution to the | ||
| political committee for the purpose of obtaining that support; and | ||
| (3) if any of the candidates created the political | ||
| committee, the full name of each candidate who created the | ||
| political committee. | ||
| (b) A political committee that violates this section is | ||
| liable to this state for a civil penalty in an amount determined by | ||
| the commission not to exceed $4,000. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 255.009, Election Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies only to political advertising that is published, | ||
| distributed, or broadcast by a political committee on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
