2004 House Bill 5921 ↩

House Roll Call 744: Passed

To require Intermediate School Districts (ISDs) to adopt a policy designed to avoid conflicts of interest by officials and employees; prohibit ISD contracts with entities in which a board member, administrator or employee has a financial interest, with some exceptions; ban gifts worth more than $44 in a given month to ISD board members and administrators; require that ISDs have a policy against using public money to buy alcoholic beverages, jewelry, gifts, entertainment tickets, sporting event tickets, golf fees, other recreational activity fees, or illegal items; require ISD contracts with administrators to have a “moral turpitude” clause; prohibit more than three members of constituent school district boards from also serving on an ISD board; reduce the terms of ISD board members from six years to four years (but not impose any limit on the number of terms); and allow ISD boards to stagger the terms, and increase the size of the board from five to seven members.