Amend CSSB 2 to read as follows:
SECTION ____.  Subchapter A, Chapter 44, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 44.0031 to read as follows:
Sec. 44.0031.  ELECTRONIC CHECKING ACCOUNT TRANSACTION REGISTER. (a) A charter school shall maintain the transaction register for the school's checking account in a searchable portable document format (PDF) in which the transaction register is readily available for purposes of Subsections (d) and (e). Except as provided by Subsection (b) or (c), the electronic checking account transaction register must include for each check written from a school checking account:
(1)  the transaction amount; and
(2)  the name of the payee.
(a-1)  Beginning September 1, 2013, a charter school's electronic checking account transaction register must contain the information required by Subsection (a) for each check dated on or after August 1, 2013. This subsection expires September 1, 2014.
(b)  A charter school may not include in the school's electronic checking account transaction register a check issued to an employee in payment of:
(1)  salary, wages, or an employment stipend; or
(2)  a workers' compensation income benefit, medical benefit, death benefit, or burial benefit that is issued by a school district operating as a self-insurer under Chapter 504, Labor Code.
(c)  This section does not apply to a checking account maintained by a charter school or campus solely for a student activity fund.
(d)  A charter school shall prominently post at all times on the home page of its Internet website a direct link to the web page on the school's website that contains its electronic checking account transaction register for viewing and downloading by interested persons.
(e)  A charter school shall share data from the electronic checking account transaction register with any interested person who requests the data under Chapter 552, Government Code.
(f)  A charter school shall:
(1)  update the electronic checking account transaction register not later than the 90th day after the closing date of the most recent monthly statement for the checking account; and
(2)  maintain each transaction or listing in the electronic checking account transaction register on the school's Internet website until the second anniversary of the date of the transaction or listing.