2003S0448-1 03/03/03
By: Lindsay S.B. No. 889
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to service credit in the judicial retirement system for
visiting state district judges.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 75.112, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), a senior district court
judge appointed under this subchapter who is not a retiree of the
Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial
Retirement System of Texas Plan Two is not entitled to receive
service credit in the appropriate retirement system for any month
in which the judge pays a contribution that is less than the amount
of monthly contribution paid by a full-time presiding district
judge.
(e) A senior district court judge appointed under this
subchapter is not considered to have made the monthly contribution
required in order to receive service credit as provided by
Subsection (d) until the judge offsets any deficiency described by
that subsection with a direct payment to the appropriate retirement
system or through an actual cash reduction of future state salary.
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 835, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 835.104 to read as follows:
Sec. 835.104. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR VISITING DISTRICT JUDGES.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a visiting or an assigned state
district judge is not entitled to receive service credit in the
retirement system for any month in which the judge makes a payroll
contribution that is less than the amount of payroll contribution
of a full-time presiding district judge.
(b) A visiting or an assigned state district judge is not
considered to have made the required monthly contribution as
provided by Section 833.101 until the judge offsets any deficiency
described under Subsection (a) with a direct payment to the
retirement system or through an actual cash reduction of future
state salary.
SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 840, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 840.107 to read as follows:
Sec. 840.107. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR VISITING DISTRICT JUDGES.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a visiting or an assigned state
district judge is not entitled to receive service credit in the
retirement system for any month in which the judge makes a payroll
contribution that is less than the amount of payroll contribution
of a full-time presiding district judge.
(b) A visiting or an assigned state district judge is not
considered to have made the required monthly contribution as
provided by Section 838.101 until the judge offsets any deficiency
described under Subsection (a) with a direct payment to the
retirement system or through an actual cash reduction of future
state salary.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, and
applies only to a monthly payroll contribution made to the Judicial
Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement
System of Texas Plan Two on or after that date.