Bill Text: TX HB450 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to public access to personal financial statements filed by public officials and candidates.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-06 - Left pending in committee [HB450 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB450-Introduced.html
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| By: Turner of Tarrant | H.B. No. 450 | |
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| 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| repealed.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, 2019. | ||
