Bill Text: TX HB590 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to public access to personal financial statements filed by public officials and candidates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-01 - Referred to State Affairs [HB590 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB590-Introduced.html

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87R2327 BRG-D
By: Turner of Tarrant H.B. No. 590

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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 each statement
available to the public on the commission's Internet 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 Internet website a financial statement that may be
destroyed under Subsection (c). The commission may not make
available on its Internet website a financial statement that the
commission is required to destroy under Subsection (c).
SECTION 2. Section 572.032(a-1), Government Code, as
amended by Chapters 34 (S.B. 1576) and 983 (H.B. 776), Acts of the
85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, is reenacted and amended
to read as follows:
(a-1) The commission shall remove the home address, the
telephone number, and the names of the dependent children of an
individual from a financial statement filed by the individual under
this subchapter before:
(1) permitting a member of the public to view the
statement;
(2) providing a copy of the statement to a member of
the public; or
(3) making the statement available to the public on
the commission's Internet website[, if the commission makes
statements filed under this subchapter available on its website].
SECTION 3. Section 572.032(b), Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.