85R6981 ATP-D
By: Turner H.B. No. 1942
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to public access to personal financial statements filed by
public officials and candidates.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 572.032, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) 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 website not later than
the 15th day after the date the statement is required to be filed or
is actually filed, whichever is later.
(d) The commission is not required to continue to make
available on its website a financial statement that may be
destroyed under Subsection (c). The commission may not make
available on its website a financial statement that the commission
is required to destroy under Subsection (c).
SECTION 2. Section 572.032(b), Government Code, is
repealed.
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, 2017.