By: Fallon H.B. No. 2935
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to restrictions on employment of former members of the
state legislature.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 572, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 572.067 to read as follows:
Sec. 572.067. FORMER LEGISLATOR: CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT
PROHIBITED. (a) A former member of the legislature may not, before
the second anniversary of the date the last term for which the
former member was elected ends, be
employed by a state agency.
SECTION 2. Section 572.067, Government Code, as added by
this Act, apply only to a member of the legislature who ceases to be
a member on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.