Bill Text: TX HB1886 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the availability on the Internet of personal financial statements filed by public officials.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-18 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1886 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1886-Introduced.html
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| By: Howard | H.B. No. 1886 | |
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| relating to the availability on the Internet of personal financial | ||
| statements filed by public officials. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 572.032(a) and (c), Government Code, | ||
| are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Financial statements filed under this subchapter are | ||
| public records. The commission shall maintain the statements in | ||
| separate alphabetical files and in a manner that is accessible to | ||
| the public during regular office hours and make the statements | ||
| available to the public on the commission's Internet website. | ||
| (c) After the second anniversary of the date the individual | ||
| ceases to be a state officer, the commission may and on notification | ||
| from the former state officer shall: | ||
| (1) destroy each financial statement filed by the | ||
| state officer; and | ||
| (2) remove each financial statement filed by the state | ||
| officer from the commission's Internet website. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 572.032(a-1), Government Code, as | ||
| amended by Chapters 34 (S.B. 1576) and 983 (H.B. 776), Acts of the | ||
| 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, is reenacted and amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) The commission shall remove the home address, the | ||
| telephone number, and the names of the dependent children of an | ||
| individual from a financial statement filed by the individual under | ||
| this subchapter before: | ||
| (1) permitting a member of the public to view the | ||
| statement; | ||
| (2) providing a copy of the statement to a member of | ||
| the public; or | ||
| (3) making the statement available to the public on | ||
| the commission's Internet website[ |
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| SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Texas Ethics Commission shall make the financial | ||
| statements filed under Subchapter B, Chapter 572, Government Code, | ||
| available on the commission's Internet website, as provided by the | ||
| changes in law made by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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. | ||
