For the Record – Important Links to the HB 13 / SB 13 Pension Transparency Bill

We thought it would be helpful to put in one place many of the online resources that were created along the way for the passage of HB 13 / SB 13. It’s been our experience these sorts of links can be helpful in the future, so here goes, in reverse chronological order:

• Bills Signed by Governor Rick Perry – 5/28/13 
• TEXPERS Lauds Passage of Bill Increasing Pension Transparency and Requiring Education for Trustees – 5/24/13
• Transparency Lives On – Statement by Texas State Comptroller Susan Combs
• HB 13 – Relating to the State Pension Review Board and public retirement systems; authorizing a fee – 5/24/13
• Texas Comptroller Susan Combs Joins Legislative Leadership to Announce Government Transparency, Pension Legislation – 2/7/13
• San Antonio Express News -- Public pension funds already transparent – 12/16/12
• Austin-American Statesman Op-ed -- Patterson: There’s plenty of pension fund transparency – 12/11/12
• Austin-American Statesman -- Combs calls for ‘tweaks’ to improve pension oversight, transparency – 12/4/12
• Comptroller Susan Combs Announces Final Report in the Texas, It’s Your Money Series