Bill Text: TX HB485 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 485 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the availability on the Internet of personal financial statements filed by certain state officeholders.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-12 - Referred to Elections [HB485 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB485-Introduced.html

	84R4190 EES-D

	By: Leach	H.B. No. 485



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the availability on the Internet of personal financial
	statements filed by certain state officeholders.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 572, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 572.0321 to read as follows:
	Sec. 572.0321. AVAILABILITY OF CERTAIN STATEMENTS ON
	INTERNET. (a) The commission shall make available to the public on
	the commission's Internet website each financial statement filed
	under this subchapter by the following persons:
	(1) a member of the legislature;
	(2) an executive or judicial officer elected in a
	statewide election; and
	(3) a member of the State Board of Education.
	(b) The commission shall make a financial statement
	described in Subsection (a) available on the commission's Internet
	website not later than the 10th business day after the date the
	statement is filed.
	(c) The commission shall remove the home address of an
	individual from a financial statement filed by the individual under
	this subchapter before posting the statement on the commission's
	Internet website under this section.
	(d) Notwithstanding Section 572.032(c), the commission may
	not remove a financial statement described in Subsection (a) from
	the commission's Internet website before the 10th anniversary of
	the date the commission makes the statement available on the
	commission's Internet website.
	SECTION 2. Section 572.0321, Government Code, as added by
	this Act, applies only to a financial statement filed under
	Subchapter B, Chapter 572, Government Code, that is due on or after
	September 1, 2015.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.