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
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| By: Uresti | S.B. No. 1492 | |
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| 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. | ||
