2025 bills / H.B. 443
H.B. 443 Candidate Disclosure Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee (stopped here)
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill requires local candidates to file a conflict of interest disclosure when they file for office, with an exception for incumbents who already filed that year, and election officials must post these statements on the local government's website. It also requires state and local candidates and officeholders to disclose yearly any misdemeanor or felony convictions, and states that such candidates are not job applicants for public employers' criminal-history question rules.
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Official description
- requires a candidate for local elective office to file a conflict of interest disclosure statement at the time the candidate files a declaration of candidacy
- creates an exception to the disclosure requirement described above if the candidate is seeking reelection to the same office and already, that same year, filed a conflict of interest disclosure statement
- requires an election official to post the candidate's disclosure statement on the political subdivision's website
- subject to certain exceptions, requires state and local candidates and officeholders to annually disclose any misdemeanor or felony offense for which the candidate or officeholder has been convicted by a court located within or outside of this state
- for purposes of laws governing when a public employer may ask a question about a job applicant's criminal history, specifies that a candidate or officeholder described above is not an applicant for a job with a public employer
- creates deadlines and procedures related to the processes described above
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 443 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 443 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Hearings and debates
- Feb 19, 2025 House Government Operations Committee▶ Watch