Sec. 815.106. INFORMATION TO LEGISLATURE. (a) The retirement system may not use any money under its control to influence the outcome of an election or to support the passage or defeat of legislation.

(b) This section does not prohibit the board of trustees, as fiduciaries of the trust fund and as trustees of other programs administered by the board, or the officers or employees of the retirement system, as designees of the board, from making recommendations to the legislature concerning the actuarial soundness of a retirement system administered by the board, the fiscal or legal implications of proposed legislation, or statutory changes designed to more efficiently administer and effectuate the purposes of a retirement system or other program administered by the board. In addition, the board or an officer or employee of the retirement system may provide to a member of the legislature or a legislative committee, at the request of the member or committee, any factual information that is not made confidential by law.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1048, Sec. 17, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.