Bill > HB551

This bill modifies the reporting requirements for political contributions and expenditures managed by the Texas Ethics Commission, focusing on address privacy protections. The bill requires the commission to add a space on reports that allows individuals to indicate whether an address associated with a political expenditure is a residential address. When the commission makes these reports available online, it will now be required to remove specific address details (except for city, state, and zip code) for both political contributors and recipients of political expenditures, with a special provision for redacting full residential addresses when they are explicitly marked as such. The removed address information will still remain available in physical reports maintained at the commission's office but will not be electronically accessible. These changes will apply to reports filed on or after January 1, 2026, with the bill taking effect on September 1, 2025, thus providing time for the Texas Ethics Commission to update its reporting systems and processes.

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