Section 609.708 - Participation of Independent Contractors(a) The plan administrator shall determine whether a person who provides services as an independent contractor to an institution of higher education that created the plan may participate in the deferred compensation plan.(b) For the purposes of Subchapter A and this subchapter, an independent contractor that is authorized to participate in a deferred compensation plan is treated as an employee of the institution of higher education creating the plan.Tex. Gov't. Code § 609.708
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1266, Sec. 2.05, eff. 1/1/2004.