Tex. Education Code § 51B.201: FOREIGN TRAVEL.

(a) An institution of higher education shall establish an international travel approval and monitoring program.

(b) The program must establish a risk-based framework for employment-related foreign travel approval, including health, safety, and security factors.

(c) A research security office must preapprove certain employment-related foreign travel according to the risk-based framework established under the program. The preapproval must require a traveling employee to review and acknowledge guidance related to foreign adversaries or countries under sanctions or other restrictions by this state or the United States government.

(d) A traveling employee must agree to comply with the institution of higher education's limitation on travel and activities abroad and all applicable federal laws.

Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1071 (H.B. 127), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2025.