82R9262 CAE-D
By: Harper-Brown H.B. No. 2867
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the inclusion of financial information of a spouse or a
dependent child on the financial statement required to be filed by
certain public officers, candidates, and state party chairs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 572.023(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) A financial statement must include an account of the
financial activity of the individual required by this subchapter to
file a financial statement and an account of the financial activity
of the individual's spouse and dependent children [if the
individual had actual control over that activity] for the preceding
calendar year.
SECTION 2. Section 572.023, Government Code, as amended by
this Act, applies only to a financial statement required to be filed
under Subchapter B, Chapter 572, Government Code, or other
applicable law on or after January 1, 2013. A financial statement
required to be filed under Subchapter B, Chapter 572, Government
Code, or other applicable law before January 1, 2013, is governed by
the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.