Bill Text: TX SB587 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the availability on the Internet of certain registrations and reports filed by lobbyists.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-24 - Co-author authorized [SB587 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB587-Introduced.html
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| By: Watson | S.B. No. 587 | |
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| relating to the availability on the Internet of certain | ||
| registrations and reports filed by lobbyists. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 305, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 305.0091 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 305.0091. AVAILABILITY OF REGISTRATIONS AND REPORTS ON | ||
| INTERNET. (a) The commission shall make available to the public on | ||
| the commission's Internet website each registration or report filed | ||
| with the commission under this chapter. | ||
| (b) Except as provided by Section 305.009(e), the | ||
| commission shall make a registration or report available on the | ||
| commission's Internet website not later than the 10th business day | ||
| after the date the registration or report is filed. | ||
| (c) The commission shall remove the home address of an | ||
| individual from a registration or report before posting the | ||
| registration or report on the commission's Internet website. | ||
| (d) The commission may not remove a registration or report | ||
| from the commission's Internet website before the fifth anniversary | ||
| of the date the commission makes the registration or report | ||
| available on the commission's Internet website. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 305.0091, Government Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a registration, registration renewal, | ||
| amended registration statement, or report required to be filed | ||
| under Chapter 305, Government Code, on or after the effective date | ||
| of this Act. A registration, registration renewal, amended | ||
| registration statement, or report required to be filed under | ||
| Chapter 305, Government Code, before the effective date of this Act | ||
| is governed by the law in effect on the date the registration, | ||
| registration renewal, amended registration statement, or report is | ||
| due, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
