Bill Text: TX HB3017 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the required posting by governmental entities of employee contracts and compensation on entity Internet websites.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-14 - Referred to State Affairs [HB3017 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3017-Introduced.html
 
 
  By: Harrison H.B. No. 3017
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the required posting by governmental entities of
  employee contracts and compensation on entity Internet websites.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subtitle A, Title 6, Government Code, is amended
  by adding Chapter 620 to read as follows:
  CHAPTER 620. COMPENSATION OF GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY EMPLOYEES
         Sec. 620.001.  DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
               (1)  "Total Compensation" means the salary, wages, and
  any other thing of value that an employee receives for work
  performed by the employee.
               (2)  "Governmental entity" means:
                     (A)  a state agency in the executive, legislative,
  or judicial branch of state government; or
                     (B)  a political subdivision of this state,
  including a county, municipality, school district, hospital
  district, metropolitan transit authority, conservation and
  reclamation district, or any other special purpose district.
         Sec. 620.002.  REQUIRED POSTING OF EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION.
  Except for information excepted from required disclosure under
  Chapter 552, each governmental entity shall:
               (1)  post on the entity's publicly available Internet
  website:
                     (A)  any employment contract the entity enters
  into with an entity employee; and
                     (B)  the total compensation paid to each entity
  employee; and
               (2)  at least annually update the information required
  under Subdivision (1).
         Sec. 620.003.  FAILURE TO POST EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION. If
  the comptroller determines that a governmental entity has violated
  Section 620.002, the comptroller shall:
               (1)  publish the comptroller's determination in the
  Texas Register; and
               (2)  notify the governmental entity in writing that the
  entity is ineligible for any state grant for a period of two years
  from the date the determination is published under Subdivision (1).
         SECTION 2.  Not later than January 1, 2024, each
  governmental entity shall comply with Section 620.002, Government
  Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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