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1-20 Code, are repealed.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.