88R2951 CJD-D
By: Turner H.B. No. 1828
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:
(1) maintain the statements in separate alphabetical
files and in a manner that is accessible to the public during
regular office hours; and
(2) make each statement available to the public on the
commission's Internet website not later than the 15th day after the
date the statement is required to be filed or the date the statement
is actually filed, whichever is later.
(d) The commission is not required to continue to make
available on the commission's Internet website a financial
statement that the commission may destroy under Subsection (c).
The commission may not make available on the commission's Internet
website a financial statement that the commission is required to
destroy under Subsection (c).
SECTION 2. Section 572.032(a-1), Government Code, as
amended by Chapters 34 (S.B. 1576) and 983 (H.B. 776), Acts of the
85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, is reenacted and amended
to read as follows:
(a-1) The commission shall remove the home address, the
telephone number, and the names of the dependent children of an
individual from a financial statement filed by the individual under
this subchapter before:
(1) permitting a member of the public to view the
statement;
(2) providing a copy of the statement to a member of
the public; or
(3) making the statement available to the public on
the commission's Internet website[, if the commission makes
statements filed under this subchapter available on its website].
SECTION 3. Section 572.032(b), Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.