| (a) Post-Employment Restriction. In order to avoid a conflict of interest, a Board shall ensure that the Board's workforce service providers shall not employ or otherwise compensate a former Board employee who: (1) was in a Board decision-making position as defined in §802.2 of this chapter; and (2) was employed or compensated by the Board anytime during the previous 12 months. (b) Exceptions. Where there is no actual conflict of interest, but there is an appearance of such a conflict, a Board in an open meeting may provide for an exception to the period described in subsection (a) of this section by a vote of two-thirds of the membership present. In making such a determination, the Board shall assess all relevant factors, including, but not limited to, whether there is a critical need for the skills involved, the relative cost and availability of alternatives, and the need to protect the integrity and stability of the Texas workforce system. In such an instance, the Board shall impose whatever terms and conditions it deems necessary to mitigate the appearance of a conflict of interest. (c) Corrective Actions. A Board shall ensure that its contracts with workforce service providers require compliance with this section and provide effective enforcement mechanisms allowing it to impose corrective actions, up to and including contract termination, for violation of this section. (d) Particular Matter. A Board shall ensure that its workforce service providers shall not employ or otherwise compensate a former Board employee to work on a particular matter that the employee worked on for the Board, as defined in §802.2 of this chapter. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a Board's workforce service provider from employing or otherwise compensating a former employee of the Board who worked on a particular matter for the Board as long as the former Board employee never works on that same particular matter once employed or otherwise compensated by the Board's workforce service provider. |
