Bill Text: TX SB1492 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to restrictions on future employment for state officers and employees who participate in a procurement or contract negotiation on behalf of a state agency; creating an offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-19 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1492 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB1492-Introduced.html
  84R10753 MK-D
 
  By: Uresti S.B. No. 1492
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to restrictions on future employment for state officers
  and employees who participate in a procurement or contract
  negotiation on behalf of a state agency; creating an offense.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 572, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 572.069 to read as follows:
         Sec. 572.069.  CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT FOR FORMER STATE OFFICER
  OR EMPLOYEE RESTRICTED; CRIMINAL PENALTY. (a)  A former state
  officer or employee of a state agency who during the period of state
  service or employment participated on behalf of a state agency in a
  procurement or contract negotiation involving a person may not
  accept employment from that person before the second anniversary of
  the date the officer's or employee's service or employment with the
  state agency ceased.
         (b)  An individual commits an offense if the individual
  violates this section.  An offense under this subsection is a Class
  A misdemeanor.
         SECTION 2.  Section 572.069, Government Code, as added by
  this Act, applies only to a state officer or employee whose service
  or employment with a state agency ceases on or after the effective
  date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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