By:  Hirschi                                          H.B. No. 1911
       73R4512 RWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to financial disclosure requirements by county or district
    1-3  officers and county employees.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 159.012(a), Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  The county auditor shall prepare forms to be used for
    1-8  filing the financial statement under this subchapter that are
    1-9  substantially similar to the financial statement forms prepared by
   1-10  the Texas Ethics Commission <secretary of state> under Chapter 421,
   1-11  Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article
   1-12  6252-9b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Section 159.033(a), Local Government Code, is
   1-14  amended to read as follows:
   1-15        (a)  The commissioners court of a <the> county may adopt by
   1-16  order a financial disclosure reporting system for county officers,
   1-17  precinct officers, county judicial officers, candidates for those
   1-18  offices, and county employees.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  Sections 159.001 and 159.031, Local Government
   1-20  Code, are repealed.
   1-21        SECTION 4.  A person who is a county or district officer
   1-22  under Subchapter A, Chapter 159, Local Government Code, as amended
   1-23  by this Act, in a county with a population of less than 500,000 or
   1-24  a candidate for a county or district office in a county with a
    2-1  population of less than 500,000 on or after the effective date of
    2-2  this Act shall file the financial statement required by Subchapter
    2-3  A, Chapter 159, Local Government Code, as amended by this Act, on
    2-4  or before the first applicable financial statement filing deadline
    2-5  that falls after the effective date of this Act.
    2-6        SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-7        SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.