Bill Text: TX SB1071 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to disability retirement benefits for certain peace officers under the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1071 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1071-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1071 |
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relating to disability retirement benefits for certain peace | ||
officers under the Employees Retirement System of Texas. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 814.207(e), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(e) If a retiring member or retiree under this section | ||
presents evidence satisfactory to the retirement system that the | ||
person's occupational disability makes the person incapable of | ||
substantial gainful activity solely because of the disability and | ||
is considered a total disability under federal social security law, | ||
the retirement system shall, notwithstanding Section 811.006, | ||
increase the person's occupational disability retirement annuity | ||
to a monthly amount computed based on the maximum salary authorized | ||
under the position classification salary schedule prescribed by the | ||
General Appropriations Act, as adjusted from time to time, | ||
applicable to the position from which the person retired [ |
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SECTION 2. (a) Subject to Subsection (b) of this section, | ||
the Employees Retirement System of Texas shall recompute an annuity | ||
that first became payable before September 1, 2021, as though | ||
Section 814.207(e), Government Code, as amended by this Act, was in | ||
effect on the date the increased annuity first became payable. | ||
(b) The first payment of an annuity recomputed under | ||
Subsection (a) of this section is payable on the first payment date | ||
occurring on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1071 passed the Senate on | ||
May 5, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that the | ||
Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 2021, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1071 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 118, | ||
Nays 29, two present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |