Consultants, Agents, Financial Advisors, and Financial Services Providers doing business with the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), and Brokers approved to do business with TRS, must report expenditures made of more than $50 on behalf of any one trustee or employee of TRS and must file any other report required by the Code of Ethics for Contractors (Code of Ethics), which is adopted by reference in §23.7 of this title (relating to Code of Ethics for Contractors). The reports must be filed no later than April 15 of each year with the Executive Director and must comply with the Code of Ethics and the Expenditure Reporting Memorandum (reporting memorandum) and the Expenditure Reporting Form for Contractors (reporting form) as promulgated and applicable under the Code of Ethics for Contractors and revised from time to time. TRS adopts by reference the reporting memorandum as most recently revised November 2, 2010 and the reporting form as most recently revised September 17, 2010. Capitalized words appearing in this section have the same meaning assigned to them in the Code of Ethics, as revised from time to time. Copies of the most recently revised reporting memorandum and reporting form have been filed with the Office of the Secretary of State in Austin. Copies of the reporting memorandum and the reporting form are available from TRS at 1000 Red River Street, Austin, Texas 78701-2698, (512) 542-6400. Also, copies of the reporting memorandum and the reporting form can be found on and printed from the TRS website, www.trs.state.tx.us, in the information regarding TRS Ethics.

Source Note:The provisions of this §23.8 adopted to be effective January 11, 1995, 19 TexReg 10552; amended to be effective June 6, 1999, 24 TexReg 4246; amended to be effective March 12, 2003, 28 TexReg 2091; amended to be effective April 29, 2004, 29 TexReg 3967; amended to be effective March 8, 2007, 32 TexReg 1078; amended to be effective March 23, 2011, 36 TexReg 1827.