Sec. 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.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1266, Sec. 2.05, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.
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