Bill Text: TX HB305 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the requirement that certain political subdivisions with authority to impose a tax post certain information on an Internet website.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 17-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB305 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB305-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the requirement that certain political subdivisions with authority to impose a tax post certain information on an Internet website.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 17-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB305 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB305-Comm_Sub.html
By: Paul, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) | H.B. No. 305 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House March 25, 2019; | ||
March 27, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Business & Commerce; May 14, 2019, reported adversely, with | ||
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, | ||
Nays 0; May 14, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 305 | By: Nichols |
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relating to the requirement that certain political subdivisions | ||
with authority to impose a tax post certain information on an | ||
Internet website. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 2051, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subchapter E to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER E. INTERNET WEBSITE | ||
Sec. 2051.151. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. Except as | ||
provided by Section 2051.152(b), this subchapter applies only to a | ||
political subdivision with the authority to impose a tax that at any | ||
time on or after January 1, 2019, maintained a publicly accessible | ||
Internet website. | ||
Sec. 2051.152. INFORMATION REQUIRED ON WEBSITE. (a) A | ||
political subdivision to which this section applies shall post on a | ||
publicly accessible Internet website the following information: | ||
(1) the political subdivision's contact information, | ||
including a mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address; | ||
(2) each elected officer of the political subdivision; | ||
(3) the date and location of the next election for | ||
officers of the political subdivision; | ||
(4) the requirements and deadline for filing for | ||
candidacy of each elected office of the political subdivision, | ||
which shall be continuously posted for at least one year before the | ||
election day for the office; | ||
(5) each notice of a meeting of the political | ||
subdivision's governing body under Subchapter C, Chapter 551; and | ||
(6) each record of a meeting of the political | ||
subdivision's governing body under Section 551.021. | ||
(b) Subsections (a)(5) and (6) do not apply to: | ||
(1) a county with a population of less than 10,000; | ||
(2) a municipality with a population of less than | ||
5,000 located in a county with a population of less than 25,000; or | ||
(3) a school district with a population of less than | ||
5,000 in the district's boundaries and located in a county with a | ||
population of less than 25,000. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 2051.152(a)(5) and (6), Government | ||
Code, as added by this Act, apply only to a meeting held on or after | ||
the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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