Sec. 159.007.  PUBLIC ACCESS TO STATEMENTS.  (a)  Financial statements filed under this subchapter are public records.  The county clerk shall maintain the statements in separate alphabetical files and in a manner that is accessible to the public during regular office hours.
(b)  During the one-year period following the date of filing of a financial statement, each time a person, other than the county clerk or an employee of the county clerk who is acting on official business, requests to see the financial statement, the county clerk shall place in the file a statement of the person's name and address, whom the person represents, and the date of the request.  The county clerk shall retain that statement in the file for one year after the date the requested financial statement is filed.
(c)  The county clerk may, and on notification from a former county officer, justice of the peace, or candidate shall, destroy any financial statements filed by the officer, justice, or candidate two years after the date the person ceases to be an officer, justice, or candidate, as applicable.
Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1134, Sec. 18, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Amended by: 
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 480 (H.B. 2468), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2007.