Bill Text: TX HB1785 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the information required to be disclosed in a registration form for lobbyists.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-23 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1785 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1785-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the information required to be disclosed in a registration form for lobbyists.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-23 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1785 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1785-Comm_Sub.html
By: Capriglione, Davis of Harris | H.B. No. 1785 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Huffman) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2019; | ||
April 16, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; April 29, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 29, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the information required to be disclosed in a | ||
registration form for lobbyists. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 305.005, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (l) to read as follows: | ||
(l) The registration form must include a statement of | ||
whether the registrant is or is required to be registered as a | ||
foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (22 | ||
U.S.C. Section 611 et seq.). | ||
SECTION 2. Section 305.005, Government Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies to a registration filed on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. A registration filed before the effective date of | ||
this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before the | ||
effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in | ||
effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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