Tex. Educ. Code § 8.009 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN LAWS RELATING TO CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A member of the board of directors and the executive director of a regional education service center are each considered to be a local public official for purposes of Chapter 171, Local Government Code. For purposes of that chapter a member of the board of directors and the executive director of a regional education service center are each considered to have a substantial interest in a business entity if a person related to the member or the executive director in the third degree by consanguinity or affinity, as determined under Chapter 573, Government Code, has a substantial interest in the business entity under Section 171.002, Local Government Code.
(b) A regional education service center is considered to be a political subdivision for purposes of Section 131.903, Local Government Code.
(c) To the extent consistent with this section, if a law described by this section applies to a school district or the board of trustees of a school district, the law applies to a regional education service center and the board of directors and executive director of a regional education service center.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 350, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.8.htm
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Government Code
Local Government Code
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 131.903CONFLICT OF INTEREST.Printed as Section 131.903, Local Government Code
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code ch. 171REGULATION OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST OF OFFICERS OF MUNICIPALITIES, COUNTIES, AND CERTAIN OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTSPrinted as Chapter 171, Local Government Code
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 171.002SUBSTANTIAL INTEREST IN BUSINESS ENTITY.Printed as Section 171.002, Local Government Code
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