Tex. Educ. Code § 43.0032 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A member of the State Board of Education, the commissioner, an employee of the agency, or a person who provides services to the board that relate to the management or investment of the permanent school fund who has a business, commercial, or other relationship that could reasonably be expected to diminish the person's independence of judgment in the performance of the person's responsibilities relating to the management or investment of the fund shall disclose the relationship in writing to the board.
(b) The board or the board's designee shall, in the ethics policy adopted under Section 43.0031, define the kinds of relationships that may create a possible conflict of interest.
(c) A person who files a statement under Subsection (a) disclosing a possible conflict of interest may not give advice or make decisions about a matter affected by the possible conflict of interest unless the board, after consultation with the general counsel of the agency, expressly waives this prohibition. The board may delegate the authority to waive the prohibition established by this subsection.
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History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1488, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.43.htm
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