Bill Text: TX HB2867 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2867 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of financial information of a spouse or a dependent child on the financial statement required to be filed by certain public officers, candidates, and state party chairs.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-17 - Referred to Elections [HB2867 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB2867-Introduced.html

	82R9262 CAE-D

	By: Harper-Brown	H.B. No. 2867



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the inclusion of financial information of a spouse or a
	dependent child on the financial statement required to be filed by
	certain public officers, candidates, and state party chairs.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 572.023(a), Government Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(a) A financial statement must include an account of the
	financial activity of the individual required by this subchapter to
	file a financial statement and an account of the financial activity
	of the individual's spouse and dependent children [~~if the~~
	~~individual had actual control over that activity~~] for the preceding
	calendar year.
	SECTION 2. Section 572.023, Government Code, as amended by
	this Act, applies only to a financial statement required to be filed
	under Subchapter B, Chapter 572, Government Code, or other
	applicable law on or after January 1, 2013. A financial statement
	required to be filed under Subchapter B, Chapter 572, Government
	Code, or other applicable law before January 1, 2013, is governed by
	the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act,
	and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.