Bill Text: TX HB231 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to suspending Employees Retirement System of Texas annuity payments for employees who return to work for the state.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-07 - Referred to Pensions [HB231 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB231-Introduced.html

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83R2163 SGA-D
By: Isaac H.B. No. 231

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to suspending Employees Retirement System of Texas annuity
payments for employees who return to work for the state.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 812.203(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Section 812.202, if [If] a retiree
takes the oath for a position included in the elected class of
membership or takes a position included in the employee class, the
retirement system shall suspend annuity payments to the person for
service that was credited in the elected or employee [that] class,
as applicable, until the person no longer holds that position.
SECTION 2. Section 812.202(b), Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a retiree of the Employees Retirement System of Texas who resumes
work with this state on or after September 1, 2018. A retiree who
resumes work with this state before that date is subject to the law
in effect on the date the employee resumes work, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2018.