Bill Text: TX SB239 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to employment restrictions for former employees of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; providing an administrative penalty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-15 - Referred to State Affairs [SB239 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB239-Introduced.html

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88R1839 SHH-D
By: Miles S.B. No. 239

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to employment restrictions for former employees of the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; providing an
administrative penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 5, Water Code, is amended
by adding Section 5.062 to read as follows:
Sec. 5.062. CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT FOR FORMER EMPLOYEE
RESTRICTED. A former employee of the commission may not accept
employment in an industry regulated by the commission, as described
in Section 5.013(a), before the second anniversary of the date the
person ceased to be an employee of the commission.
SECTION 2. Section 7.052, Water Code, is amended by adding
Subsection (b-5) to read as follows:
(b-5) A person who hires a former employee of the commission
in violation of Section 5.062 is subject to an administrative
penalty not to exceed an amount that is equal to three times the
employee's salary for the position hired.
SECTION 3. Section 5.062, Water Code, as added by this Act,
applies only to a person who ceases to be an employee of the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective date
of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.