Bill Text: TX HB1582 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the disclosure of all compensation paid to current or former elected officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-16 - Left pending in committee [HB1582 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1582-Introduced.html
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| By: Simpson | H.B. No. 1582 | |
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| relating to the disclosure of all compensation paid to current or | ||
| former elected officers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 5, Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Chapter 561 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 561. DISCLOSURE OF COMPENSATION OF ELECTED OFFICER | ||
| Sec. 561.001. APPLICABILITY. This chapter applies to any | ||
| governmental entity from whose budget an elected officer is | ||
| compensated, including an agency of this state or a political | ||
| subdivision of this state governed by one or more elected officers. | ||
| Sec. 561.002. INFORMATION ABOUT ALL COMPENSATION OF ELECTED | ||
| OFFICER. (a) As soon as practicable after the end of the entity's | ||
| fiscal year, each entity described by Section 561.001 shall | ||
| disclose all forms of compensation for service in an official | ||
| capacity received by each currently serving or former elected | ||
| officer compensated by the entity during the preceding fiscal year | ||
| in any form, regardless of whether that form of compensation is | ||
| otherwise required to be disclosed under another law. | ||
| (b) For purposes of this section, compensation includes | ||
| travel reimbursement, health care premiums, retirement benefits, | ||
| and anything required to be reported by the recipient as income to | ||
| the Internal Revenue Service. | ||
| Sec. 561.003. POSTING OF DISCLOSURES. (a) Except as | ||
| provided by Subsection (b), the governmental entity must post the | ||
| disclosure required by Section 561.002 on the entity's Internet | ||
| website, in a location easily accessible by the public. The | ||
| disclosure must remain posted in a location easily accessible by | ||
| the public until the second anniversary of the date the | ||
| governmental entity posted the disclosure. | ||
| (b) The governing body of a political subdivision that does | ||
| not maintain an Internet website shall post each disclosure in each | ||
| location at which the political subdivision posts public notices | ||
| regarding the political subdivision's budget. A disclosure | ||
| described by this subsection shall remain accessible to the public | ||
| after posting at the main office of the political subdivision until | ||
| the second anniversary of the date the governing body posted the | ||
| disclosure. | ||
| SECTION 2. Chapter 561, Government Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies beginning September 1, 2015. This Act does not require | ||
| the disclosure of compensation paid before that date. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
