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.

SUMMARY: 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.

FULL TEXT:
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.