Bill Text: TX HB1872 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to public access to certain information included on personal financial statements filed by county judicial officers.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-23 - Effective immediately [HB1872 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1872-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to public access to certain information included on personal financial statements filed by county judicial officers.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-23 - Effective immediately [HB1872 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1872-Comm_Sub.html
By: Goldman (Senate Sponsor - Hancock) | H.B. No. 1872 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 8, 2019; | ||
April 9, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; April 29, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 29, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to public access to certain information included on | ||
personal financial statements filed by county judicial officers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 159.055, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 159.055. PUBLIC ACCESS TO STATEMENTS AND RELATED | ||
RECORDS. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 159.055(b), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) The [ |
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officer's or candidate's home address and the names of the officer's | ||
or candidate's dependent children from the officer's or candidate's | ||
financial statement and any county or commission record derived | ||
from the financial statement before the statement or record is made | ||
available to a member of the public. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
159.055(b), Local Government Code, applies to information included | ||
in a financial statement regardless of whether the statement was | ||
filed before the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. 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. | ||
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