Bill Text: TX HB1502 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to certain local public retirement systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-09 - Referred to Pensions [HB1502 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1502-Introduced.html
85R2632 TSR-F | ||
By: Murphy | H.B. No. 1502 |
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relating to certain local public retirement systems. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 810, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 810.004 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 810.004. MUNICIPAL CONTROL OF RETIREMENT SYSTEM | ||
PROVISIONS. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Agreement" means a jointly arrived at decision | ||
affecting the plan provisions of a public retirement system and | ||
includes any mutually agreed upon changes made by a public | ||
retirement system, the system's sponsoring municipality, and an | ||
employee group, regardless of whether the agreement is achieved | ||
through collective bargaining, meet and confer arrangements, or any | ||
other procedure applicable to the retirement system under its | ||
enabling statute. | ||
(2) "Public retirement system" has the meaning | ||
assigned by Section 802.001. | ||
(b) This section applies to only the following public | ||
retirement systems: | ||
(1) the City of Austin Employees' Retirement System | ||
under Chapter 451 (S.B. 737), Acts of the 72nd Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 1991 (Article 6243n, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); | ||
(2) the Austin Fire Fighters Relief and Retirement | ||
Fund under Chapter 183 (S.B. 598), Acts of the 64th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 1975 (Article 6243e.1, Vernon's Texas Civil | ||
Statutes); | ||
(3) the Austin Police Retirement System under Chapter | ||
452 (S.B. 738), Acts of the 72nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1991 | ||
(Article 6243n-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); | ||
(4) the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System under | ||
Article 6243a-1, Revised Statutes; | ||
(5) the El Paso Firemen and Policemen's Pension Fund | ||
under Chapter 101 (H.B. 31), Acts of the 43rd Legislature, 1st | ||
Called Session, 1933 (Article 6243b, Vernon's Texas Civil | ||
Statutes); | ||
(6) the Fort Worth Employees' Retirement Fund under | ||
Article 6243i, Revised Statutes; | ||
(7) the Galveston Employees' Retirement Plan for | ||
Police under Chapter 325 (H.B. 2259), Acts of the 75th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 1997 (Article 6243p, Vernon's Texas Civil | ||
Statutes); | ||
(8) the Houston Firefighters' Relief and Retirement | ||
Fund under Article 6243e.2(1), Revised Statutes; | ||
(9) the Houston Municipal Employees Pension System | ||
under Chapter 88 (H.B. 1573), Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2001 (Article 6243h, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); | ||
(10) the Houston Police Officers' Pension System under | ||
Article 6243g-4, Revised Statutes; and | ||
(11) the San Antonio Fire and Police Pension Fund | ||
under Chapter 824 (S.B. 817), Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 1993 (Article 6243o, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes). | ||
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (e) of this section and | ||
Sections 66 and 67, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and | ||
notwithstanding any other law, a municipality that is the | ||
sponsoring authority of a public retirement system may adopt by | ||
ordinance or resolution, as applicable, provisions that supplement | ||
or supersede the operative provisions of the public retirement | ||
system's statute, including any provision relating to the benefits, | ||
participation and eligibility requirements, funding source or | ||
amount, and administration of the system. | ||
(d) Except as provided by Subsection (e), to the extent of a | ||
conflict between a statute adopted before the effective date of the | ||
Act enacting this section that applies to a public retirement | ||
system described by Subsection (b) and a municipal ordinance or | ||
resolution adopted by the governing body of the sponsoring | ||
municipality of that retirement system under this section, the | ||
municipal ordinance or resolution prevails. | ||
(e) An agreement entered into before September 1, 2017, | ||
remains in effect until the earlier of: | ||
(1) the expiration date provided by the agreement; or | ||
(2) August 31, 2027. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |