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Texas Payroll/Personnel Resource

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General Provisions
Restrictions on Certain Actions Involving Executive Head of a State Agency

  • A state agency (meaning a department, commission, board, office or other agency that is in the executive branch of state government; which has authority that is not limited to a geographical portion of the state; which was created by the Texas Constitution or a statute of this state; including a university system or an institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, other than a public junior college; and including a river authority created under the Texas Constitution or a statute of this state) may not reassign the executive head of a state agency to another position in the agency or at another agency that is also controlled by the same governing body, unless the governing body, in an open meeting, votes to approve the proposed reassignment.
  • A state agency may not contract with the executive head of the agency, with a person who at any time during the four years before the date of the contract was the executive head of the agency, or with a person who employs a current or former executive head of a state agency unless the governing body:
    • Votes, in an open meeting, to approve the contract.
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    • Notifies the Legislative Budget Board, no later than the fifth day before the date of the vote, of the terms of the proposed contract.

Sources

Texas Government Code, Sections 669.001-003.