[Eril-l] State of Texas SB20 Restriction on Employment

[danielle plumer]

Allyson,

I'm sorry to hear about this! I understand the frustration.

The SB20 provision is a slightly stricter version of a provision that's
been around for a while prohibiting state employees from going to work for
vendors and then working on projects they were involved with as a state
employee. It used to be that state employees could go to work for a vendor
as long as they were working on projects for other customers. The SB20
change was intended to prevent employees from cutting sweetheart deals with
vendors and then leaving the state for a cushy job with the vendor. Trust
me, it's happened (not in libraries, as far as I know).

As far as state employees not being told about these sorts of things that
can affect their employment, I agree that it's a problem. I don't know how
much training universities provide their employees about state
restrictions, but I do know that librarians are often surprised at the
number of hoops we have to jump through at the state library. I recommend
looking at Appendix 3 of the Texas Procurement and Contract Management
Guide, at
https://comptroller.texas.gov/purchasing/publications/procurement-contract.php,
which gives some of the restrictions for state employees involved in
purchasing.

Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Statewide Resource Sharing Administrator

*Texas State Library and Archives Commission *

512-463-5433 | mobile 737-224-2446 | fax 512-936-2306 |
dplumer at tsl.texas.gov



On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 11:53 AM Allyson Rodriguez <allyer10 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> An employee in our department (Collection Development) is offboarding to
> move to a new institution. As part of the offboarding process they were
> required to indicate they understand the following statement:
>
> *Notification to exiting employees - I understand that former state
> employees involved in procurement or contract negotiation are prohibited
> from accepting employment from the companies they negotiated with on behalf
> of the former state agency for two years after ending employment. Click
> here to see the full State Bill SB20
> <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcapitol.texas.gov%2Ftlodocs%2F84R%2Fbilltext%2Fhtml%2FSB00020f.HTM&data=04%7C01%7CAllyson.Rodriguez%40unt.edu%7C1ce9ead733ae4b298e6508da08347411%7C70de199207c6480fa318a1afcba03983%7C0%7C0%7C637831318616472436%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=SIPobfcssKQW8ITr7NnPsDimra14cu9C2ZWlAmnCrdc%3D&reserved=0>
> to Exiting Employees. *
>
> Up to this point, none of us in the department had heard of this
> requirement and by only revealing it at the point of offboarding
> (potentially after an employee could have accepted a position with a
> vendor) it could put employees in a serious bind.
>
> Do other states have similar restrictions?
> Are those in Texas (at public institutions) aware of this restriction? If
> so, when and how were you told? Are companies aware of this?
>
> Thanks all,
> Allyson Rodriguez
> UNT Libraries
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