By Telford H.B. No. 828
76R798 GJH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to reinstatement of certain service credit in the Teacher
1-3 Retirement System of Texas.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 823.501(a), (b), and (f), Government
1-6 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) An eligible person who has terminated membership in the
1-8 retirement system under Section 822.003 by withdrawal of
1-9 contributions or not qualifying for service credit for five
1-10 consecutive years [absence from service] may reinstate in the
1-11 system the service credit canceled by the termination.
1-12 (b) A person is eligible to reinstate service credit under
1-13 this section if at least six months have elapsed since the end of
1-14 the month in which the termination became effective [is one who is
1-15 a contributing member of the retirement system at the time the
1-16 service is reinstated].
1-17 (f) An eligible person [A contributing member] may have an
1-18 account that was terminated by not qualifying for service credit
1-19 for five consecutive years [absence from service] reactivated by
1-20 requesting the reactivation in writing. The beneficiary of a
1-21 decedent who was a contributing member at the time of death may
1-22 reactivate [have] an account that was terminated by the decedent's
1-23 not qualifying for service credit for five consecutive years
1-24 [absence from service reactivated] by requesting the reactivation
2-1 in writing before the first payment of a death benefit.
2-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.