| 1 | 1 | | 85R5744 EES-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Watson S.B. No. 464 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to the availability on the Internet of certain |
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| 8 | 8 | | registrations and reports filed by lobbyists. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 305, Government Code, is |
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| 11 | 11 | | amended by adding Section 305.0091 to read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | Sec. 305.0091. AVAILABILITY OF REGISTRATIONS AND REPORTS ON |
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| 13 | 13 | | INTERNET. (a) The commission shall make available to the public on |
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| 14 | 14 | | the commission's Internet website each registration or report filed |
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| 15 | 15 | | with the commission under this chapter. |
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| 16 | 16 | | (b) Except as provided by Section 305.009(e), the |
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| 17 | 17 | | commission shall make a registration or report available on the |
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| 18 | 18 | | commission's Internet website not later than the 10th business day |
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| 19 | 19 | | after the date the registration or report is filed. |
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| 20 | 20 | | (c) The commission shall remove the home address of an |
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| 21 | 21 | | individual from a registration or report before posting the |
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| 22 | 22 | | registration or report on the commission's Internet website. |
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| 23 | 23 | | (d) The commission may not remove a registration or report |
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| 24 | 24 | | from the commission's Internet website before the fifth anniversary |
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| 25 | 25 | | of the date the commission makes the registration or report |
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| 26 | 26 | | available on the commission's Internet website. |
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| 27 | 27 | | SECTION 2. Section 305.0091, Government Code, as added by |
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| 28 | 28 | | this Act, applies only to a registration, registration renewal, |
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| 29 | 29 | | amended registration statement, or report required to be filed |
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| 30 | 30 | | under Chapter 305, Government Code, on or after the effective date |
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| 31 | 31 | | of this Act. A registration, registration renewal, amended |
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| 32 | 32 | | registration statement, or report required to be filed under |
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| 33 | 33 | | Chapter 305, Government Code, before the effective date of this Act |
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| 34 | 34 | | is governed by the law in effect on the date the registration, |
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| 35 | 35 | | registration renewal, amended registration statement, or report is |
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| 36 | 36 | | due, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. |
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| 37 | 37 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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