By McReynolds H.B. No. 1533
77R6052 GJH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a year of creditable service in the Teacher Retirement
1-3 System of Texas.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 823.002, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 823.002. SERVICE CREDITABLE AS [IN] A YEAR. (a)
1-8 Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (c), the [The] board of
1-9 trustees by rule shall determine how much service in any year is
1-10 equivalent to one year of service credit, but in no case may all of
1-11 a person's service in one school year be creditable as more than
1-12 one year of service.
1-13 (b) Instructional service performed by a person during the
1-14 summers between regular school years is creditable as one year of
1-15 service for every 90 days of instructional service.
1-16 (c) Service that has been credited by the retirement system
1-17 on annual statements for a period of five or more years may not be
1-18 deleted or corrected because of an error in crediting unless the
1-19 error concerns three or more years of service credit or was caused
1-20 by fraud.
1-21 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-22 to service performed on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-23 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.