Bill Text: TX HB3207 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to preventing the loss of benefits by certain retirees of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas who resume service during a declared disaster.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)
Status: (Vetoed) 2021-06-18 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB3207 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3207-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3207 |
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relating to preventing the loss of benefits by certain retirees of | ||
the Teacher Retirement System of Texas who resume service during a | ||
declared disaster. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 824.602(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) Subject to Section 825.506, the retirement system may | ||
not, under Section 824.601, withhold a monthly benefit payment if | ||
the retiree is employed in a Texas public educational institution: | ||
(1) as a substitute only with pay not more than the | ||
daily rate of substitute pay established by the employer and, if the | ||
retiree is a disability retiree, the employment has not exceeded a | ||
total of 90 days in the school year; | ||
(2) in a position, other than as a substitute, on no | ||
more than a one-half time basis for the month; | ||
(3) in one or more positions on as much as a full-time | ||
basis, if the retiree has been separated from service with all Texas | ||
public educational institutions for at least 12 full consecutive | ||
months after the retiree's effective date of retirement; [ |
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(4) in a position, other than as a substitute, on no | ||
more than a one-half time basis for no more than 90 days in the | ||
school year, if the retiree is a disability retiree; or | ||
(5) in a position in an area subject to a declaration | ||
of disaster by the governor under Chapter 418 or a declaration of | ||
local disaster under that chapter while the declaration is in | ||
effect. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 824.602, Government Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies only to the employment of a retiree of the Teacher | ||
Retirement System of Texas on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas shall adopt | ||
rules as necessary to implement Section 824.602, Government Code, | ||
as amended by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3207 was passed by the House on April | ||
30, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3207 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
25, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |