By: Alvarado (Senate Sponsor - Miles) H.B. No. 998

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2017; May 9, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; May 15, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 15, 2017, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the confidentiality of certain information stored as part of the preparation of campaign finance reports required to be filed with the clerk of certain counties or municipalities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 254.0401, Election Code, is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:

(g) Electronic report data saved in a temporary storage location of the authority with whom the report is filed for later retrieval and editing before the report is filed is confidential and may not be disclosed. After the report is filed with the authority, the information disclosed in the filed report is public information to the extent provided by this title.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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