Texas 2013 - 83rd Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1389 Latest Draft

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                            83R9334 ATP-D
 By: Davis S.B. No. 1389


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to the disclosure on personal financial statements of
 service retirement annuities received.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Section 572.023(b), Government Code, is amended
 to read as follows:
 (b)  The account of financial activity consists of:
 (1)  a list of all sources of occupational income,
 identified by employer, or if self-employed, by the nature of the
 occupation, including identification of a person or other
 organization from which the individual or a business in which the
 individual has a substantial interest received a fee as a retainer
 for a claim on future services in case of need, as distinguished
 from a fee for services on a matter specified at the time of
 contracting for or receiving the fee, if professional or
 occupational services are not actually performed during the
 reporting period equal to or in excess of the amount of the
 retainer, and the category of the amount of the fee;
 (2)  identification by name and the category of the
 number of shares of stock of any business entity held or acquired,
 and if sold, the category of the amount of net gain or loss realized
 from the sale;
 (3)  a list of all bonds, notes, and other commercial
 paper held or acquired, and if sold, the category of the amount of
 net gain or loss realized from the sale;
 (4)  identification of each source and the category of
 the amount of income in excess of $500 derived from each source from
 interest, dividends, royalties, and rents;
 (5)  identification of each guarantor of a loan and
 identification of each person or financial institution to whom a
 personal note or notes or lease agreement for a total financial
 liability in excess of $1,000 existed at any time during the year
 and the category of the amount of the liability;
 (6)  identification by description of all beneficial
 interests in real property and business entities held or acquired,
 and if sold, the category of the amount of the net gain or loss
 realized from the sale;
 (7)  identification of a person or other organization
 from which the individual or the individual's spouse or dependent
 children received a gift of anything of value in excess of $250 and
 a description of each gift, except:
 (A)  a gift received from an individual related to
 the individual at any time within the second degree by
 consanguinity or affinity, as determined under Subchapter B,
 Chapter 573;
 (B)  a political contribution that was reported as
 required by Chapter 254, Election Code; and
 (C)  an expenditure required to be reported by a
 person required to be registered under Chapter 305;
 (8)  identification of the source and the category of
 the amount of all income received as beneficiary of a trust, other
 than a blind trust that complies with Subsection (c), and
 identification of each trust asset, if known to the beneficiary,
 from which income was received by the beneficiary in excess of $500;
 (9)  identification by description and the category of
 the amount of all assets and liabilities of a corporation, firm,
 partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership,
 professional corporation, professional association, joint venture,
 or other business association in which 50 percent or more of the
 outstanding ownership was held, acquired, or sold;
 (10)  a list of all boards of directors of which the
 individual is a member and executive positions that the individual
 holds in corporations, firms, partnerships, limited partnerships,
 limited liability partnerships, professional corporations,
 professional associations, joint ventures, or other business
 associations or proprietorships, stating the name of each
 corporation, firm, partnership, limited partnership, limited
 liability partnership, professional corporation, professional
 association, joint venture, or other business association or
 proprietorship and the position held;
 (11)  identification of any person providing
 transportation, meals, or lodging expenses permitted under Section
 36.07(b), Penal Code, and the amount of those expenses, other than
 expenditures required to be reported under Chapter 305;
 (12)  any corporation, firm, partnership, limited
 partnership, limited liability partnership, professional
 corporation, professional association, joint venture, or other
 business association, excluding a publicly held corporation, in
 which both the individual and a person registered under Chapter 305
 have an interest;
 (13)  identification by name and the category of the
 number of shares of any mutual fund held or acquired, and if sold,
 the category of the amount of net gain or loss realized from the
 sale; [and]
 (14)  identification of each blind trust that complies
 with Subsection (c), including:
 (A)  the category of the fair market value of the
 trust;
 (B)  the date the trust was created;
 (C)  the name and address of the trustee; and
 (D)  a statement signed by the trustee, under
 penalty of perjury, stating that:
 (i)  the trustee has not revealed any
 information to the individual, except information that may be
 disclosed under Subdivision (8); and
 (ii)  to the best of the trustee's knowledge,
 the trust complies with this section; and
 (15)  identification of any service retirement annuity
 paid to the individual under Title 8 of this code or Title 109,
 Revised Statutes, including the name of the retirement system, the
 name of the entity or entities to which the individual provided the
 creditable service, the identification of any class of membership
 in the retirement system, and the category of the total amount of
 annuity payments.
 SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
 to a financial statement filed under Subchapter B, Chapter 572,
 Government Code, as amended by this Act, on or after January 1,
 2015. A financial statement filed before January 1, 2015, is
 governed by the law in effect on the date of filing, and the former
 law is continued in effect for that purpose.
 SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.