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Senate Bill 1207 |
Senate Author: Menéndez |
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Effective: 9-1-23 |
House Sponsor: Allison et al. |
Senate Bill 1207 amends Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes to revise provisions relating to the San Antonio Fire and Police Pension Fund to incorporate technical updates, clarifications, and other provisions. Among other provisions, the bill revises provisions regarding the following general matters:
· membership in and contributions to the fund regarding a member of the fund who enters any uniformed service of the United States;
· a member's eligibility for disability retirement benefits and the calculation of the respective disability retirement benefits based on time of service;
· provisions governing the medical reexamination of a disability retiree and the reduction of disability retirement benefits;
· the suspension of the disability retirement annuity of a retiree who fails to provide an income tax return until the retiree does so and the restoration of a disability retirement annuity that has been reduced based on income received from other employment;
· the provision prohibiting the accrual of a service retirement annuity, disability retirement annuity, death benefit, or any other benefit under the provisions governing the system from exceeding benefit limits applicable to the fund under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
· provisions authorizing a 13th and 14th pension check to retirees and beneficiaries under certain circumstances;
· the death benefit annuity for surviving spouses and children and the death benefit annuity for the spouse and children of a member killed in the line of duty;
· the effect of a marriage on benefits;
· common law spouses as beneficiaries;
· beneficiaries of a member who dies while on an indefinite suspension that has not become final; and
· the provision establishing that the election by a surviving spouse to receive a lump sum death benefit annuity payment does not affect the amount of the annuity payable to a dependent child of a deceased member.