By: Goldman (Senate Sponsor - Hancock) H.B. No. 1872
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 8, 2019;
April 9, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; April 29, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 29, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to public access to certain information included on
personal financial statements filed by county judicial officers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 159.055, Local Government
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 159.055. PUBLIC ACCESS TO STATEMENTS AND RELATED
RECORDS.
SECTION 2. Section 159.055(b), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) The [On the written request of a county judicial officer
or candidate, the] county clerk or the commission shall remove the
officer's or candidate's home address and the names of the officer's
or candidate's dependent children from the officer's or candidate's
financial statement and any county or commission record derived
from the financial statement before the statement or record is made
available to a member of the public.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section
159.055(b), Local Government Code, applies to information included
in a financial statement regardless of whether the statement was
filed before the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 4. 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, 2019.
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