By: Whitmire S.B. No. 115
73R2407 GCH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to eligibility for service retirement under the Texas
1-3 County and District Retirement System.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 844.207(c), (d), and (e), Government
1-6 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) A member shall be eligible, beginning on the first
1-8 anniversary date of the person's membership, to retire and receive
1-9 a service retirement annuity, if the member:
1-10 (1) is at least 60 years old and has at least 5 <10>
1-11 years of Section 844.207 credited service in the retirement system;
1-12 or
1-13 (2) has sufficient years of Section 844.207 credited
1-14 service in the retirement system that, when such number is added to
1-15 the years of attained age of the member, produces a sum equal to or
1-16 in excess of the number 75 <80>; or
1-17 (3) <if the member> is eligible for service retirement
1-18 under any other provision of this subtitle.
1-19 (d) If a member has 5 <10> years or more of Section 844.207
1-20 credited service in the retirement system, subsequent absence from
1-21 service shall not terminate membership, and unless membership is
1-22 otherwise terminated, the member shall be eligible to retire and
1-23 receive a service retirement annuity at any time after the member
1-24 attains the age of 60 years.
2-1 (e) An employee of a participating subdivision which has
2-2 adopted the plan provisions of this section may select an optional
2-3 service retirement annuity in the manner and under the conditions
2-4 provided in Section 844.105, if the member:
2-5 (1) has 5 <10> or more years of Section 844.207
2-6 credited service in the retirement system and has attained the age
2-7 of 60 years; or
2-8 (2) has at least 20 years of Section 844.207 credited
2-9 service or is otherwise eligible to make such selection of an
2-10 optional service retirement annuity under the provisions of Section
2-11 844.105, 844.106, 844.203, or 844.204.
2-12 If a member who is authorized under this subsection to select
2-13 an optional service retirement annuity dies before retirement
2-14 without having made a selection, the member's surviving spouse or
2-15 the executor or administrator of the member's estate may make the
2-16 selection provided by Section 844.105 under the terms of that
2-17 section <subsection>.
2-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-24 passage, and it is so enacted.