Monitoring the SessionSB 346
Died in committee
Initial review · graded Oct 20, 2026 · Headline, summary and grade are analysis of the bill text, not a finding about any person · How we grade
relating to the availability on the Internet of certain registrations and reports filed by lobbyists.
Caption from analyzed text · version I.
Posted within 10 business days, home addresses stripped, up five years.
The bill requires the Texas Ethics Commission to post every lobbyist registration and report filed under the lobbying chapter on its website. It touches lobbyists and the commission, which must post filings within 10 business days, strip home addresses first, and keep each filing online for at least five years. Starting September 1, 2025, the public can look up lobbyist filings online on a set deadline and with a set retention period.
Labels: ZOMBIE BILL. Died 2 times: 88R SB 216 (Died in committee) and this bill (Died in committee). Checked against 88R only.BACK FROM THE DEAD. Same text as a bill filed before that died: 88R SB 216 (Died in committee). Filed in 2 sessions, counting this one. Checked against 88R only.TRY NO. 2. Filed in 2 sessions: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.NEVER GOT A HEARING. Filed Nov 13, 2024 and referred to the Senate State Affairs committee. No public hearing. The bill died.
89R-SB346 · 2024-11-13
relating to the availability on the Internet of certain registrations and reports filed by lobbyists.
Posted within 10 business days, home addresses stripped, up five years.
The bill requires the Texas Ethics Commission to post every lobbyist registration and report filed under the lobbying chapter on its website. It touches lobbyists and the commission, which must post filings within 10 business days, strip home addresses first, and keep each filing online for at least five years. Starting September 1, 2025, the public can look up lobbyist filings online on a set deadline and with a set retention period.
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No floor vote loaded for this bill.
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Analysis of text version I by claude-opus-5-5, Oct 20, 2026, against the published rubric.
Filed 2 times: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.
by Sen. Eckhardt, same lead author · Died in committee · same text
Introduced textLast action, Feb 15, 2023: Referred to State Affairs
Relating to the availability on the Internet of certain registrations and reports filed by lobbyists.
Caption, 88R bill history
Texas Senate · Filed Nov 13, 2024
02/03/2025 S Referred to State Affairs
Texas Legislature Online · Introduced
Data snapshot Oct 26, 2026 at 4:20 AM CDT. Grades, charges, quotes and corrections follow the published record.
Senate committee · State Affairs · Final status: Died in committee
Electronic Information Systems
Ethics
Legislature
LOBBYISTS & LOBBYING
ETHICS COMMISSION, TEXAS
The text as introduced · 296 words
89R4306 MZM-D By: Eckhardt S.B. No. 346 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the availability on the Internet of certain registrations and reports filed by lobbyists. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 305, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 305.0091 to read as follows: Sec. 305.0091. AVAILABILITY OF REGISTRATIONS AND REPORTS ON INTERNET. (a) The commission shall make available to the public on the commission's Internet website each registration or report filed with the commission under this chapter. (b) Except as provided by Section 305.009(e), the commission shall make a registration or report available on the commission's Internet website not later than the 10th business day after the date the registration or report is filed. (c) The commission must remove the home address of an individual from a registration or report before posting the registration or report on the commission's Internet website. (d) The commission may not remove a registration or report from the commission's Internet website before the fifth anniversary of the date the commission makes the registration or report available on the website. SECTION 2. Section 305.0091, Government Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a registration, registration renewal, amended registration statement, or report required to be filed under Chapter 305, Government Code, on or after the effective date of this Act. A registration, registration renewal, amended registration statement, or report required to be filed under Chapter 305, Government Code, before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the registration, registration renewal, amended registration statement, or report is due, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.