Sec. 609.109.  PARTICIPATION OF INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS.  (a)  The plan administrator shall determine whether a person who provides services as an independent contractor to a political subdivision 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 political subdivision creating the plan.
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.