Bill Text: TX HB1886 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the availability on the Internet of personal financial statements filed by public officials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-18 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1886 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB1886-Introduced.html
  86R9386 ATP-F
 
  By: Howard H.B. No. 1886
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the availability on the Internet of personal financial
  statements filed by public officials.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 572.032(a) and (c), Government Code,
  are amended 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 the statements
  available to the public on the commission's Internet 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(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.  As soon as practicable after the effective date
  of this Act, the Texas Ethics Commission shall make the financial
  statements filed under Subchapter B, Chapter 572, Government Code,
  available on the commission's Internet website, as provided by the
  changes in law made by 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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