Bill Text: TX HB1942 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to public access to personal financial statements filed by public officials and candidates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-18 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1942 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1942-Introduced.html
  85R6981 ATP-D
 
  By: Turner H.B. No. 1942
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to public access to personal financial statements filed by
  public officials and candidates.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 572.032, Government Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) 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 website not later than
  the 15th day after the date the statement is required to be filed or
  is actually filed, whichever is later.
         (d)  The commission is not required to continue to make
  available on its website a financial statement that may be
  destroyed under Subsection (c).  The commission may not make
  available on its website a financial statement that the commission
  is required to destroy under Subsection (c).
         SECTION 2.  Section 572.032(b), Government Code, is
  repealed.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2017.
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