(a) An officer, employee, or paid consultant of a Texas trade association in the field of public finance may not be a member of the board or an employee of the authority who is exempt from the state’s position classification plan or is compensated at or above the amount prescribed by the General Appropriations Act for step 1, salary group A17, of the position classification salary schedule.
(b) A person who is the spouse of an officer, manager, or paid consultant of a Texas trade association in the field of public finance may not be a member of the board and may not be an employee of the authority who is exempt from the state’s position classification plan or is compensated at or above the amount prescribed by the General Appropriations Act for step 1, salary group A17, of the position classification salary schedule.

(c) For the purposes of this section, a Texas trade association is a nonprofit, cooperative, and voluntarily joined association of business or professional competitors in this state designed to assist its members and its industry or profession in dealing with mutual business or professional problems and in promoting their common interest.
(d) A person may not serve as a member of the board or act as the general counsel to the board or the authority if the person is required to register as a lobbyist under Chapter 305 because of the person’s activities for compensation on behalf of a profession related to the operation of the authority.