Tex. Election Code § 274.028: COMMISSION RETAINED BY ASSOCIATION.

If the secretary of state contracts with a statewide association for publication of the notice of a proposed constitutional amendment, the contract must provide that the association retain a commission out of the amount paid by the state under the contract. The commission must be a stipulated percentage of the state payment that is uniformly applied against each newspaper.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.