Texas § ED.12.1166 - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

§ ED.12.1166. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS. (a) The commissioner shall adopt a rule defining "related party" for purposes of this subchapter. The definition of "related party" must include: (1) a party with a current or former board member, administrator, or officer who is: (A) a board member, administrator, or officer of an open-enrollment charter school; or (B) related within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity, as determined under Chapter 573 , Government Code, to a board member, administrator, or officer of an open-enrollment charter school; (2) a charter holder's related organizations, joint ventures, and jointly governed organizations; (3) an open-enrollment charter school's board members, administrators, or officers or a person related to a board member, administrator, or officer within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity, as determined under Chapter 573 , Government Code; and (4) any other disqualified person, as that term is defined by 26 U.S.C. Section 4958(f). (b) For purposes of Subsection (a)(1), a person is a former board member, administrator, or officer if the person served in that capacity within one year of the date on which a financial transaction between the charter holder and a related party occurred. (c) In a charter holder's annual audit filed under Section 44.008 , the charter holder must include a list of all transactions with a related party. Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 631 (S.B. 1454 ), Sec. 6, eff. June 10, 2019.