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Amend HB 590 on page 2, between lines 12 and 13, by inserting
the following:
(b-1) A state agency's ethics policy adopted under
Subsection (b) must prohibit a former officer or employee of the
agency who has previously left state office or state employment,
engaged in activities that require registration under Chapter 305,
and subsequently returned to an office with or employment by the
agency from engaging in activities before that agency that require
registration under Chapter 305 before, as applicable, the first
anniversary of:
(1) the date the last term for which the state officer
was elected or appointed ends; or
(2) the date the person's last service as a state
employee ends.