Bill Text: TX HB998 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB998 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB998-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB998 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB998-Comm_Sub.html
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.) | ||
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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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