Bill Text: TX HB4421 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to political advertising.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-26 - Referred to Elections [HB4421 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4421-Introduced.html
| By: Goldman | H.B. No. 4421 | |
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| Relating to political advertising. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 251.001(16), Elections Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (16) "Political advertising" means a communication | ||
| supporting or opposing a candidate for nomination or election to a | ||
| public office or office of a political party, a political party, a | ||
| public officer, or a measure, including a communication that | ||
| references the position of a candidate or officeholder on a measure | ||
| if the communication is made with a principal intent of positively | ||
| or negatively influencing the public's perception of the candidate | ||
| or officeholder, that: | ||
| (A) in return for consideration, is published in | ||
| a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical or is broadcast by radio | ||
| or television; or | ||
| (B) appears: | ||
| (i) in a pamphlet, circular, flier, | ||
| billboard or other sign, bumper sticker, or similar form of written | ||
| communication; or | ||
| (ii) on an Internet website. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
