79R3059 SGA-F
By: Wentworth S.B. No. 179
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to retirement benefits for visiting judges.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 834.102(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The retirement system shall increase by 10 percent of
the amount of the applicable state salary under Subsection (a) or
(d) the annuity of a member who on the effective date of retirement:
(1) has not been out of judicial office for more than
one year; or
(2) has served as a visiting judge in this state and
the first anniversary of the last day of that service has or has not
occurred.
SECTION 2. Section 839.102(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The retirement system shall increase by 10 percent of
the amount of the applicable state salary under Subsection (a) or
(c) the annuity of a member who on the effective date of retirement:
(1) has not been out of judicial office for more than
one year; or
(2) has served as a visiting judge in this state and
the first anniversary of the last day of that service has or has not
occurred.
SECTION 3. The Employees Retirement System of Texas shall
recompute the annuities of all persons who retired or received a
death benefit annuity from the Judicial Retirement System of Texas
Plan One or the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan Two before
January 1, 2002, as if the changes in law made by Chapter 1240, Acts
of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, to Sections
834.102(b) and 839.102(b), Government Code, had been in effect on
the date of the person's retirement or death. The first payment of
any annuity increased under this section becomes payable with the
first payment due on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.