The Governance practice group provides legal counsel to the System and its members in matters related to the Public Information Act and Open Meetings Act, System policies and regulations, conflicts of interest and ethics, legislation, state and federal relations, records management, and treasury services.<\/p>\n
SYSTEM POLICIES & REGULATIONS<\/span><\/strong> LEGAL HELP<\/span><\/strong> FORMS RESOURCES<\/span><\/strong> PUBLIC INFORMATION ACT & OPEN MEETINGS ACT<\/strong><\/span> SYSTEM POLICIES & REGULATIONS<\/strong><\/span> CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AND ETHICS<\/strong><\/span> LEGISLATION, STATE & FEDERAL RELATIONS<\/strong><\/span> RECORDS MANAGEMENT TREASURY SERVICES Governance The Governance practice group provides legal counsel to the System and its members in matters related to the Public Information Act and Open Meetings Act, System policies and regulations, conflicts of interest and ethics, legislation, state and federal relations, records management, and treasury services. SYSTEM POLICIES & REGULATIONS \u2022 System Policy 07.01 Ethics \u2022…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":11879,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"tamus","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/author\/webmaster\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12231\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 System Policy 07.01<\/a> Ethics
\n\u2022 System Policy 07.02<\/a> Texas Higher Education Fair Lending Practices
\n\u2022 System Policy 07.03 <\/a>Conflicts of Interest, Dual Office Holding and Political Activities
\n\u2022 System Policy 07.04<\/a> Benefits, Gifts and Honoraria
\n\u2022 System Policy 61.01 <\/a>Public Information Act Compliance
\n\u2022\u00a0System Policy 61.01.02<\/a> Public Information
\n\u2022 System Regulation 61.99.01<\/a> Retention of State Records<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Public Information Requests<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/strong>\u2022 Annual Financial Disclosure Form<\/a>
\n<\/span>\u2022 Contracting Financial Interest Disclosure and Certification Form<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 System Policy Office<\/a>
\n\u2022 Attorney General of Texas <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nThis practice group provides legal advice regarding general Public Information Act issues as well as specific PIA requests. When necessary, this practice group prepares and submits decision requests to the Texas Office of the Attorney General. Open Meetings Act matters also fall within this practice area (note that within the System the OMA applies only to the Board of Regents).<\/p>\n
\nThe governance practice group advises the System on new and revised policies and regulations and reviews each System member’s new and revised rules.<\/p>\n
\nThis practice group maintains System conflicts of interest and ethics policies and provides legal advice and training on these topics.<\/p>\n
\nState and federal legislative matters fall within the governance practice group.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/strong>The governance practice group provides advice on records management matters and coordinates the System records management program.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/strong>The governance practice group reviews banking and investment documents for the Office of the Treasurer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"