By Dutton H.B. No. 643 75R1044 ESH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to compliance with financial reporting requirements as a 1-3 qualification for public office. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 141, Election Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 141.005 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 141.005. FAILURE TO FILE FINANCIAL REPORTS: 1-8 INELIGIBILITY AS CANDIDATE OR OFFICEHOLDER. (a) A person is 1-9 ineligible to be a candidate for or to hold public office if the 1-10 person fails to file, before the 30th day after the date the report 1-11 is due, a report required under: 1-12 (1) Subchapter C, Chapter 254; 1-13 (2) Subchapter B, Chapter 572, Government Code; or 1-14 (3) Chapter 159, Local Government Code. 1-15 (b) The authority with whom a report described by Subsection 1-16 (a) is required to be filed shall deliver written notice of each 1-17 person who fails to file a required report before the 30th day 1-18 after the date the report is due to the appropriate authority under 1-19 Section 145.003 or, if a certificate of election has been issued, 1-20 to the appropriate authority for acting on a resignation or 1-21 declination relating to the office. The notice must be delivered 1-22 not later than the 35th day after the date the report is due. On 1-23 receipt of the notice, the authority shall declare the person 1-24 ineligible. 2-1 SECTION 2. Section 141.005, Election Code, applies only to a 2-2 report under Subchapter C, Chapter 254, Election Code, Subchapter 2-3 B, Chapter 572, Government Code, or Chapter 159, Local Government 2-4 Code, that is due after the effective date of this Act. 2-5 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 1998, but only 2-6 if the constitutional amendment proposed by ____.J.R. No. ____, 2-7 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, is approved by the voters. 2-8 If the proposed constitutional amendment is not approved by the 2-9 voters, this Act has no effect. 2-10 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.