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Amend Amendment No. 1 by Wolens to CSHB 1606 in Article 2 of
the bill by inserting the following new SECTION, appropriately
numbered, and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of Article 2
appropriately:
SECTION 2._____. Chapter 252, Election Code, is amended by
adding Section 252.0011 to read as follows:
Sec. 252.0011. INELIGIBILITY FOR APPOINTMENT AS CAMPAIGN
TREASURER. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) or (c), a
person is ineligible for appointment as a campaign treasurer if the
person is the campaign treasurer of a political committee that does
not file a report required by Chapter 254.
(b) The period for which a person is ineligible under
Subsection (a) for appointment as a campaign treasurer ends on the
date on which the political committee in connection with which the
person's ineligibility arose has filed each report required by
Chapter 254 that was not timely filed, or has paid all fines and
penalties in connection with the failure to file the report.
(c) Subsection (a) does not apply to a person if, in any
semi-annual reporting period prescribed by Chapter 254:
(1) the political committee in connection with which
the person's ineligibility arose did not accept political
contributions that in the aggregate exceed $5,000 or make political
expenditures that in the aggregate exceed $5,000; and
(2) the candidate who or political committee that
subsequently appoints the person does not accept political
contributions that in the aggregate exceed $5,000 or make political
expenditures that in the aggregate exceed $5,000.
(d) Subsection (c) applies to a person who is the campaign
treasurer of a general-purpose committee regardless of whether the
committee files monthly reports under Section 254.155. For
purposes of this subsection, political contributions accepted and
political expenditures made during a monthly reporting period are
aggregated with political contributions accepted and political
expenditures made in each other monthly reporting period that
corresponds to the semi-annual reporting period that contains those
months.
(e) A candidate or political committee is considered to have
not appointed a campaign treasurer if the candidate or committee
appoints a person as campaign treasurer whose appointment is
prohibited by Subsection (a).
(f) A person who violates this section is liable for a civil
penalty not to exceed three times the amount of political
contributions accepted or political expenditures made in violation
of this section.