By King H.B. No. 3580
75R10508 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to financial disclosure by a county auditor.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 159.033, Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 159.033. FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE REPORTING SYSTEM.
1-7 (a) The commissioners court of a county with a population of less
1-8 than 125,000 may adopt by order a financial disclosure reporting
1-9 system for the county auditor.
1-10 (b) The commissioners court of a [the] county with a
1-11 population of 125,000 or more may adopt by order a financial
1-12 disclosure reporting system for county officers, precinct
1-13 officers, county judicial officers, candidates for those offices,
1-14 and county employees.
1-15 (c) [(b)] The commissioners court shall prescribe the items
1-16 required to be reported and the times the report is due.
1-17 (d) [(c)] If reporting is required under Subsection (b), the
1-18 commissioners court may restrict the reporting requirement to a
1-19 limited part of county employees if all employees with similar jobs
1-20 are required to report.
1-21 SECTION 2. Section 159.031, Local Government Code, is
1-22 repealed.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.