Bill Text: TX HB3261 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 3261 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-15 - Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services [HB3261 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3261-Introduced.html

	88R6341 JCG-D

	By: Herrero	H.B. No. 3261



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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;
	(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) as a tutor under Section 33.913, Education Code;
	or
	(6) 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, 2023.