79R8451 ESH-D

By:  Howard                                                       H.B. No. 2312



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT


relating to the filing of personal financial disclosure statements 
by municipal officers and candidates, members of the boards of 
trustees of school districts, and directors of sports and community 
venue districts.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 145.003, Local Government Code, is 
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to 
read as follows:
	(a)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), a [A] municipal 
officer or a candidate for a municipal office filled by election 
shall file a financial statement as required by this chapter.
	(c)  A municipal officer who does not receive compensation 
for serving as an officer or a candidate for such an office is not 
required to file a financial statement under this chapter.
	SECTION 2.  Section 11.064, Education Code, as added by 
Chapter 249, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, 
is repealed.
	SECTION 3.  Section 335.1085, Local Government Code, is 
repealed.            
	SECTION 4.  (a)  Section 145.003, Local Government Code, as 
amended by this Act, applies only to the filing by a municipal 
officer or employee of a financial statement that covers the 2005 or 
a later calendar year.  The filing by a municipal officer or 
employee of a financial statement that covers the 2004 calendar 
year is governed by the law in effect on January 1, 2005, and the 
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	(b)  The repeal by this Act of Section 11.064, Education 
Code, as added by Chapter 249, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular 
Session, 2003, applies only to the filing by a school district 
trustee of a financial statement that covers the 2005 or a later 
calendar year.  The filing by a school district trustee of a 
financial statement that covers the 2004 calendar year is governed 
by the law in effect on January 1, 2005, and the former law is 
continued in effect for that purpose.
	(c)  The repeal by this Act of Section 335.1085, Local 
Government Code, applies only to the filing by a director of a venue 
district of a financial statement that covers the 2005 or a later 
calendar year.  The filing by a director of a venue district of a 
financial statement that covers the 2004 calendar year is governed 
by the law in effect on January 1, 2005, and the former law is 
continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.