Bill Text: TX SB1452 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the loss of benefits of and the payment of certain employer contributions for certain retirees of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas who resume service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Finance [SB1452 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1452-Introduced.html
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By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1452 |
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relating to the loss of benefits of and the payment of certain | ||
employer contributions for certain retirees of the Teacher | ||
Retirement System of Texas who resume service. | ||
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; [ |
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(5) as a tutor under Section 33.913, Education Code; | ||
or | ||
(6) in a position on as much as a full-time basis that | ||
is necessary, as determined by the board of trustees, for | ||
implementing a special education program under Subchapter A, | ||
Chapter 29, Education Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 825.4092(e), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(e) The amounts required to be paid under Subsections (b) | ||
and (c) are not required to be paid by a reporting employer for a | ||
retiree who retired from the retirement system: | ||
(1) before September 1, 2005; or | ||
(2) on or after September 1, 2005, if the retiree is | ||
employed in a position described by Section 824.602(a)(6). | ||
SECTION 3. (a) Subject to Subsection (b) of this section, | ||
the changes in law made by this Act apply to a retiree of the Teacher | ||
Retirement System of Texas regardless of whether the person retired | ||
from employment before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
(b) Section 824.602, Government Code, as amended by this | ||
Act, applies only to a benefit payment made by the Teacher | ||
Retirement System of Texas that becomes payable on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 825.4092, Government Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies beginning with the 2023-2024 school year. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |