Bill Text: TX SB710 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to authorization for the creation of a county ethics commission in any county.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-21 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB710 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB710-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Creighton S.B. No. 710
(In the Senate - Filed February 8, 2019; March 1, 2019, read
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 27, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 27, 2019,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 710 By: Creighton

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorization for the creation of a county ethics
commission in any county.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. This Act shall be cited as the J. D. Lambright
Local Government Ethics Reform Act.
SECTION 2. Section 161.001, Local Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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