Bill Text: TX HB777 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to required disclosures on certain mailed political advertising; providing a civil penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-21 - Referred to Elections [HB777 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB777-Introduced.html
86R972 ATP-F | ||
By: Davis of Harris | H.B. No. 777 |
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relating to required disclosures on certain mailed political | ||
advertising; 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 SLATE MAILER. (a) In | ||
this section, "slate mailer" means a mass mailing that supports or | ||
opposes four or more candidates. | ||
(b) This section does not apply to a slate mailer produced | ||
by a general-purpose committee. | ||
(c) In addition to the disclosure statement required by | ||
Section 255.001 or 255.008, as applicable, the first page of a slate | ||
mailer must indicate the full name and address of each person with | ||
final decision-making authority as to which candidates are | ||
supported or opposed in the slate mailer. | ||
(d) A person may not knowingly cause to be published or | ||
distributed a slate mailer that does not include the disclosure | ||
required by Subsection (c). | ||
(e) A person who 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. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |