Bill Text: TX HB3635 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to financial assistance paid to the survivors of certain law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other public employees killed in the line of duty.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB3635 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3635-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3635 |
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relating to financial assistance paid to the survivors of certain | ||
law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other public employees | ||
killed in the line of duty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 615.022, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 615.022. PAYMENT TO SURVIVORS. (a) If there is an | ||
eligible surviving spouse, the state shall pay the benefits | ||
described by Subsection (d) [ |
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spouse. | ||
(b) If there is no eligible surviving spouse, the state | ||
shall pay the benefits described by Subsection (d) [ |
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equal shares to surviving children. | ||
(c) If there is no eligible surviving spouse or child, the | ||
state shall pay the benefits described by Subsection (d) [ |
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in equal shares to surviving parents. | ||
(d) An eligible survivor, or eligible survivors in equal | ||
shares, are entitled to receive a lump sum payment in the amount | ||
provided by this subsection. The lump sum payment amount payable to | ||
an eligible survivor during the 12 months beginning September 1, | ||
2019, is $500,000. Effective September 1 of each following year, | ||
the board of trustees of the Employees Retirement System of Texas by | ||
rule shall adjust the amount of the lump sum payment required under | ||
this subsection by an amount equal to the percentage change in the | ||
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, published by the | ||
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor | ||
for the preceding year. The amount paid to an eligible survivor or | ||
survivors as adjusted under this subsection is calculated based on | ||
the date of the decedent's death and not on the date the eligible | ||
survivor or survivors file a claim under this chapter. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply to a | ||
payment of assistance to survivors of certain public employees on | ||
or after the effective date of this Act regardless of the date the | ||
public employee died. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3635 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3635 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |