Bill Text: TX HB3559 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting certain nonprofit state associations and organizations from providing training, insurance and risk pool contracts, and other professional services to public educational entities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Public Education [HB3559 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3559-Introduced.html
 
 
  By: Harrison H.B. No. 3559
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to prohibiting certain nonprofit state associations and
  organizations from providing training, insurance and risk pool
  contracts, and other professional services to public educational
  entities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 1, Education Code, is amended by adding
  Section 1.008 to read as follows:
         Sec. 1.008.  RESTRICTION ON ENTITIES THAT MAY PROVIDE
  CERTAIN TRAINING, CONTRACTS, AND SERVICES TO PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL
  INSTITUTIONS.  A school district may not contract with or
  distribute public funds to a nonprofit association or organization
  that employs an individual required to register as a lobbyist under
  Chapter 305, Government Code, for the purpose of:
               (1)  Providing any training or instruction;
               (2)  Purchasing insurance products or in order to
  participate a risk pool; or
               (3)  Procuring any professional service.
         SECTION 2.  Section 1.008, Education Code, as added by this
  Act, applies only to a contract entered into on or after the
  effective date of this Act. A contract entered into before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
  date the contract was entered into, and the former law is continued
  in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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