HB 2889
AN ACT relating to requiring political subdivisions to provide funding for
89th Regular Session
Jan 14, 2025 - Jun 2, 2025 • Session ended
Awaiting Committee Assignment
Bill filed, pending referral to House committee
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Fiscal Note
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What This Bill Does
Requires political subdivisions that spend public money promoting a bond measure to provide equal funding to opponents of that measure upon request. The funding must be used for communications that factually describe the bond measure, with the goal of ensuring fair and honest elections. The funds remain public money and are subject to existing election code regulations about political communications.
Subject Areas
Bill Text
relating to requiring political subdivisions to provide funding for communications from opponents of bond measures of the political BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Chapter 140, Local Government Code, is amended by adding Section 140.014 to read as follows: Sec. 140.014. EQUAL FUNDING TO BOND MEASURE OPPONENTS. (a) To support the state purpose of ensuring fair and honest elections, a political subdivision that spends or authorizes the spending of public money for a communication that factually describes the purposes of a bond measure shall provide upon request an equal amount of money to a person who opposes the adoption of the bond measure to fund a communication that factually describes the (b) Money provided under this section continues to be public money and the use of money received under this section is governed by Sections 255.003(a), (b), and (b-1), Election Code, as if the person who receives the money were an officer or employee of a SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
Bill History
Bill filed: AN ACT relating to requiring political subdivisions to provide funding for
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