By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1071
(In the Senate - Filed February 23, 2009; March 13, 2009, read
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
April 8, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 8, 2009,
sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1071 By: Lucio
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the required disclosure under the public information
law of information pertaining to an employee or trustee of a public
employee pension system.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 552, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 552.0221 to read as follows:
Sec. 552.0221. EMPLOYEE OR TRUSTEE OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEE
PENSION SYSTEM. (a) Information concerning the employment of an
employee of a public employee pension system is public information
under the terms of this chapter, including information concerning
the income, salary, benefits, and bonuses received from the pension
system by the employee in the person's capacity as an employee of
the system, and is not removed from the application of this chapter,
made confidential, or otherwise excepted from the requirements of
Section 552.021 by any statute intended to protect the records of
persons as members, beneficiaries, or retirees of a public employee
pension system in their capacity as such.
(b) Information concerning the service of a trustee of a
public employee pension system is public information under the
terms of this chapter, including information concerning the income,
salary, benefits, and bonuses received from the pension system by
the trustee in the person's capacity as a trustee of the system, and
is not removed from the application of this chapter, made
confidential, or otherwise excepted from the requirements of
Section 552.021 by any statute intended to protect the records of
persons as members, beneficiaries, or retirees of a public employee
pension system in their capacity as such.
(c) Information subject to Subsections (a) and (b) must be
released only to the extent the information is not excepted from
required disclosure under Subchapter C.
SECTION 2. Section 552.0221, Government Code, as added by
this Act, applies only in relation to a request for public
information made on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. 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, 2009.
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