Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 2522 amends the Texas Local Fire Fighters Retirement Act to authorize the chairman and vice chairman of the board of a local fire fighters' retirement system to swear witnesses for the purpose of taking testimony before the board and to authorize the board to issue a subpoena to require the attendance of a witness or the production of documents for a proceeding before the board. The act also authorizes the fire fighters' pension commissioner to issue a subpoena to require the production of documents necessary to determine a local board's compliance with that statute, requires the attorney general to represent the commissioner in its enforcement, and allows the attorney general to take certain actions to compel compliance with its provisions. Finally, the act allows a retirement system's board of trustees to pay from the system's fund all costs reasonably and lawfully incurred by the system and the costs of actual expenses incurred by board members in their official capacities, and it deletes a provision relating to payments for additional expenses approved at an election by the system's member.