Bill Text: TX HB1985 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Relating to the service credit used in calculating longevity pay for certain judges and justices with prior full-time service as an associate judge.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-12 - Referred to Finance [HB1985 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1985-Engrossed.html

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88R7437 JTZ-D
By: Vasut H.B. No. 1985

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the service credit used in calculating longevity pay
for certain judges and justices with prior full-time service as an
associate judge.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 659.012(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) A judge or justice for whom the amount of a state base
salary is prescribed by Subsection (a) is entitled to an annual
salary from the state in the amount equal to:
(1) 110 percent of the state base salary paid in
accordance with Subsection (a) for the judge's or justice's
position, beginning with the pay period that begins after the judge
or justice accrues four years of:
(A) contributing service credit in the Judicial
Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement
System of Texas Plan Two;
(B) service as a judge or a full-time associate
judge of a district court, statutory county court, multicounty
statutory county court, or statutory probate court; or
(C) combined contributing service credit and
service as provided by Paragraphs (A) and (B); and
(2) 120 percent of the state base salary paid in
accordance with Subsection (a) for the judge's or justice's
position, beginning with the pay period that begins after the judge
or justice accrues eight years of:
(A) contributing service credit in the Judicial
Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement
System of Texas Plan Two;
(B) service as a judge or a full-time associate
judge of a district court, statutory county court, multicounty
statutory county court, or statutory probate court; or
(C) combined contributing service credit and
service as provided by Paragraphs (A) and (B).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.