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.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 8)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-25 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB284 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB284-Comm_Sub.html
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| 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. | ||
