Bill Text: TX HB210 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to contracting with a school district by a vendor with whom a member of the board of trustees of the district or a related individual has certain business interests; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB210 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB210-Introduced.html
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| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 210 | |
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| relating to contracting with a school district by a vendor with whom | ||
| a member of the board of trustees of the district or a related | ||
| individual has certain business interests; creating a criminal | ||
| offense. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 11, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 11.067 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 11.067. PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN ACTIVITY BY VENDOR. | ||
| (a) A vendor that bids on or receives a contract from a school | ||
| district commits an offense if any individual serving on the board | ||
| of trustees of the school district: | ||
| (1) has a substantial interest in the vendor; or | ||
| (2) is related in the second degree by consanguinity | ||
| or affinity, as determined under Chapter 573, Government Code, to | ||
| an individual who has a substantial interest in the vendor. | ||
| (b) An individual has a substantial interest in a vendor if | ||
| the individual: | ||
| (1) owns more than 10 percent of the voting interest in | ||
| the vendor; or | ||
| (2) has a direct or indirect participating interest by | ||
| shares, stock, or otherwise, regardless of whether voting rights | ||
| are included, in more than 10 percent of the profits, proceeds, or | ||
| capital gains of the vendor. | ||
| (c) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor, | ||
| except that a second offense under this section is a Class B | ||
| misdemeanor, a third offense under this section is a Class A | ||
| misdemeanor, and a fourth or subsequent offense under this section | ||
| is a state jail felony. | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), any offense under this | ||
| section is a state jail felony if the vendor directly compensated | ||
| the individual serving on the school district's board of trustees | ||
| as consideration for the district entering into a contract with the | ||
| vendor. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
