Bill Text: TX SB417 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to public access to personal financial statements filed by candidates for and holders of state office and state chairs of political parties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-13 - Referred to State Affairs [SB417 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB417-Introduced.html
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By: Ellis | S.B. No. 417 |
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relating to public access to personal financial statements filed by | ||
candidates for and holders of state office and state chairs of | ||
political parties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 572.032, Government Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a), (a-1), and (c) and adding Subsection | ||
(a-2) to read as follows: | ||
(a) Financial statements filed under this subchapter are | ||
public records. The commission shall: | ||
(1) maintain the statements in separate alphabetical | ||
files and in a manner that is accessible to the public during | ||
regular office hours; and | ||
(2) not later than the 10th business day after the date | ||
a statement is filed, post the statement on the commission's | ||
Internet website. | ||
(a-1) The commission shall remove the home address of a | ||
judge or justice from a financial statement filed under this | ||
subchapter before: | ||
(1) permitting a member of the public to view the | ||
statement; [ |
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(2) providing a copy of the statement to a member of | ||
the public; or | ||
(3) posting the statement on the commission's Internet | ||
website. | ||
(a-2) In posting financial statements on the commission's | ||
Internet website, the commission shall to the extent practicable | ||
arrange the statements in a manner that: | ||
(1) groups together the statements filed by | ||
individuals holding or seeking the same type of office; and | ||
(2) groups together all statements filed by an | ||
individual that appear on the website. | ||
(c) After the second anniversary of the date the individual | ||
ceases to be a state officer, the commission may and on notification | ||
from the former state officer shall: | ||
(1) destroy each financial statement filed by the | ||
state officer; and | ||
(2) remove each financial statement filed by the state | ||
officer from the commission's Internet website. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 572.032(b), Government Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 572.032, Government Code, as amended 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, 2013. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |