Bill Text: TX HB948 | 2025-2026 | 89th 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) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB948 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB948-Introduced.html
| By: Harrison | H.B. No. 948 | |
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| 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 621 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 621. COMPENSATION OF GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY EMPLOYEES | ||
| Sec. 621.001. 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. 621.002. 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. 621.003. 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, 2026, each | ||
| governmental entity shall comply with Section 621.002, Government | ||
| Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
