1-1 By: Puente (Senate Sponsor - Madla) H.B. No. 458
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 13, 1993;
1-3 April 14, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 10, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 10, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the application for monthly survivor benefits under the
1-24 Teacher Retirement System of Texas for certain persons whose
1-25 remarriage disqualified them from those benefits.
1-26 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-27 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 824, Government Code, is
1-28 amended by adding Section 824.4041 to read as follows:
1-29 Sec. 824.4041. BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN SURVIVING SPOUSES.
1-30 (a) A person is eligible to receive benefits under this section if
1-31 the person:
1-32 (1) is the designated beneficiary of a deceased
1-33 member;
1-34 (2) elected before September 1, 1980, to receive for
1-35 life a monthly benefit of $75 beginning at the age of 65;
1-36 (3) became ineligible for the benefits because the
1-37 person remarried before September 1, 1980; and
1-38 (4) reapplies for benefits under this section.
1-39 (b) The retirement system shall:
1-40 (1) verify whether a person is eligible to receive
1-41 benefits under this section; and
1-42 (2) if the person is eligible, make payments to the
1-43 person of a monthly benefit in the amount specified in Section
1-44 824.404.
1-45 (c) The retirement system shall make payment to a person
1-46 eligible to receive benefits under this section beginning with the
1-47 month after the month in which the person reapplies for benefits
1-48 under this section.
1-49 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-50 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-51 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-52 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-53 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-54 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-55 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-56 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-57 * * * * *
1-58 Austin,
1-59 Texas
1-60 May 10, 1993
1-61 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-62 President of the Senate
1-63 Sir:
1-64 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
1-65 No. 458, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-66 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-67 pass and be printed.
1-68 Harris of
2-1 Dallas, Chairman
2-2 * * * * *
2-3 WITNESSES
2-4 FOR AGAINST ON
2-5 ___________________________________________________________________
2-6 Name: William L Diesing x
2-7 Representing:
2-8 City: San Antonio
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