Enacted-Effective 9/1/11: HB 3573 -- Disclosures about and eligibility of members of charity's board

Caption: Relating to limiting the disclosure of certain information regarding certain charitable organizations, trusts, private foundations, and grant-making organizations.
Author: King, Susan
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Relevance:  This bill prohibits a charity from disclosing certain information about officers, board members, trustees and members of the charity unless those persons give written consent to the disclosure.  It also prohibits a governmental entity from prohibiting an individual's service on a charity's board or as an officer of a charity based on the individial's donor status or familial relationship to a donor. The bill provides that it does not limit the authority of the attorney general to investigate or enforce laws in accordance with the attorney general's duty to protect the public interest.

x-Did Not Pass: HB 2657 -- Changes to 2009 Estates Code recodification (decedents' estates)

Caption: Relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes, to the nonsubstantive codification or disposition of various laws omitted from enacted codes, and to conforming codifications enacted by the 81st Legislature to other Acts of that legislature.
Author: King, Tracy O.
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Relevance: This is a catch-all bill prepared by the Legislative Council to make corrections to various codes and to make conforming changes caused by other 2009 legislation. For probate attorneys, the most significant provisions amend those portions of the new Estates Code that reflect changes to the old Probate Code made in 2009. These changes are supposed to be nonsubstantive. The new Estates Code becomes effective January 1, 2014.