Bill Text: TX HB3377 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the service retirement annuity for certain members of the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan Two who resume service.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-01 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3377 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3377-Introduced.html

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84R11895 TSR-D
By: Hughes H.B. No. 3377

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the service retirement annuity for certain members of
the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan Two who resume
service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 837.102, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (e), (f), and (g) to
read as follows:
(a) A retiree who resumes service as a judicial officer
other than by appointment or assignment described in Section
837.101 may not rejoin or receive credit in the retirement system
for the resumed service, unless an election is made as provided by
Subsection (e).
(e) A retiree described by Subsection (a) may elect to
rejoin and receive service credit in the retirement system for
resuming service as a judicial officer if, before taking the oath of
office, the retiree has been separated from judicial service for at
least 12 full consecutive months. The retiree shall provide notice
of the election to the retirement system in a manner prescribed by
the retirement system.
(f) For a retiree who makes an election under Subsection
(e), on the resumption of annuity payments that have been suspended
under this section, the retirement system shall recompute the
service retirement annuity of the retiree to include the retiree's
additional service credit. On retirement from the retiree's
subsequent service, the retiree may elect a service retirement
annuity as if the retiree were retiring for the first time.
(g) If a retiree under Subsection (f) elects an optional
service retirement annuity payable under Section 839.103 with a
fixed number of payments, the retirement system shall reduce the
number of months of payments by the number of months for which the
annuity was paid before the retiree resumed service.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.