85S11041 MK-F
By: Fallon H.B. No. 271
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 572.063 to read as follows:
Sec. 572.063. FORMER LEGISLATOR: CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT
PROHIBITED. 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 572.063, Government Code, as added by
this Act, applies 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 December 1, 2017.