Bill Text: TX HB284 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the availability of certain school district financial information on districts' Internet websites.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-25 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB284 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB284-Comm_Sub.html
83R21618 PAM-D | |||
By: Zedler, et al. | H.B. No. 284 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 284: | |||
By: Ratliff | C.S.H.B. No. 284 |
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relating to the availability of certain school district financial | ||
information on districts' Internet websites. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 44, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 44.0031 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 44.0031. ELECTRONIC CHECKING ACCOUNT TRANSACTION | ||
REGISTER. (a) A school district shall maintain the transaction | ||
register for the district's checking account in a searchable | ||
portable document format (PDF) in which the transaction register is | ||
readily available for purposes of Subsections (d) and (e). Except | ||
as provided by Subsection (b) or (c), the electronic checking | ||
account transaction register must include for each check written | ||
from a district checking account: | ||
(1) the transaction amount; and | ||
(2) the name of the payee. | ||
(a-1) Beginning September 1, 2013, a school district's | ||
electronic checking account transaction register must contain the | ||
information required by Subsection (a) for each check dated on or | ||
after August 1, 2013. This subsection expires September 1, 2014. | ||
(b) A school district may not include in the district's | ||
electronic checking account transaction register a check issued to | ||
a district employee in payment of: | ||
(1) salary, wages, or an employment stipend; or | ||
(2) a workers' compensation income benefit, medical | ||
benefit, death benefit, or burial benefit that is issued by a school | ||
district operating as a self-insurer under Chapter 504, Labor Code. | ||
(c) This section does not apply to a checking account | ||
maintained by a school district or school campus solely for a | ||
student activity fund. | ||
(d) A school district shall prominently post at all times on | ||
the home page of the district's Internet website a direct link to | ||
the web page on the district's website that contains the district's | ||
electronic checking account transaction register for viewing and | ||
downloading by interested persons. | ||
(e) A school district shall share data from the electronic | ||
checking account transaction register with any interested person | ||
who requests the data under Chapter 552, Government Code. | ||
(f) A school district shall: | ||
(1) update the electronic checking account | ||
transaction register not later than the 90th day after the closing | ||
date of the most recent monthly statement for the checking account; | ||
and | ||
(2) maintain each transaction or listing in the | ||
electronic checking account transaction register on the district's | ||
Internet website until the second anniversary of the date of the | ||
transaction or listing. | ||
(g) A school district with a student enrollment of fewer | ||
than 500 students in kindergarten through grade 12 is not required | ||
to comply with this section. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2013. |