H.B. No. 3511
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the contents of financial statements filed by certain
  persons; adding a provision subject to criminal penalties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 572.023, Government Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (g) and (h) to read
  as follows:
         (a)  A financial statement must include an account of the
  financial activity for the preceding calendar year of:
               (1)  any property characterized as separate property
  under Section 3.001, Family Code, of the individual required by
  this subchapter to file a financial statement;
               (2)  any community property of which the individual
  required by this subchapter to file a financial statement has sole
  management, control, and disposition as provided by Section
  3.102(a), Family Code;
               (3)  any community property of the individual required
  by this subchapter to file a financial statement, if the individual
  exercised both factual and legal control over the activity; and
               (4)  [an account of the financial activity of] the
  individual's [spouse and] dependent children if the individual
  exercised or held the right to exercise any degree of legal or
  factual [had actual] control over that activity [for the preceding
  calendar year].
         (g)  A person who electronically files a verified financial
  statement with the commission or another filing authority is not
  required to include a notarized affidavit with the financial
  statement if the person:
               (1)  has requested and received an electronic filing
  password pursuant to the rules of the commission or other
  authority, as applicable; and
               (2)  uses that password to file the financial
  statement.
         (h)  Each financial statement filed under this chapter that
  is not filed electronically must be accompanied by an affidavit
  executed by the person required to file the financial statement.
  The affidavit must contain the statement: "I swear, or affirm,
  under penalty of perjury, that the accompanying report is true and
  correct and includes all information required to be reported by me
  under Chapter 572, Government Code." Each financial statement filed
  electronically under this chapter must be under oath by the person
  required to file the financial statement and must contain, in
  compliance with commission or local filing authority
  specifications, the digitized signature of the person required to
  file the financial statement. A financial statement filed under
  this chapter is considered to be under oath by the person required
  to file the financial statement, and the person is subject to
  prosecution under Chapter 37, Penal Code, regardless of the absence
  of or a defect in the affidavit.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a financial statement
  due on or after the effective date of this Act. A financial
  statement due before the effective date of this Act is governed by
  the law in effect on the date the financial statement was due, and
  the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 3511 was passed by the House on May 4,
  2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 140, Nays 0, 1 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 3511 on May 29, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 0,
  2 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 3511 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 27, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
  0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor