80R10184 KFF-D
 
  By: Guillen, et al. H.B. No. 3392
 
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the resumption of employment by certain retirees within
the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Sections 852.108(a) and (b), Government Code,
are amended to read as follows:
       (a)  In this section and Sections 852.1085 and [Section]
852.109, a person's reemploying municipality is the municipality
for which the person was performing creditable service at the time
of the person's retirement under this subtitle.
       (b)  Except as provided by Section 852.1085, a [A] person who
has retired with a service retirement benefit under this subtitle
and later becomes an employee of the person's reemploying
municipality also becomes a member of the system on the date of
employment, but credits and benefits allowable to the person under
this subtitle are limited as provided by this section.
       SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 852, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 852.1085 to read as follows:
       Sec. 852.1085.  RESUMPTION OF SERVICE WITH SAME EMPLOYER BY
CERTAIN RETIREES. Notwithstanding Section 852.108, a person who
retired because the department in the municipality in which the
person worked was privatized and who later resumes employment in
the same department or a successor department in the person's
reemploying municipality again becomes a member of the retirement
system and the person's retirement annuity is not suspended in the
same manner provided by Section 852.109 for a person who resumes
employment with a different municipality.
       SECTION 3.  (a)  A person who resumed employment after
retirement and whose annuity was suspended under Section 852.108,
Government Code, as that section existed before amendment by this
Act, is entitled to the resumption of monthly annuity payments if
the person meets the requirements of Section 852.1085, Government
Code, as added by this Act.
       (b)  The Texas Municipal Retirement System shall resume
making monthly annuity payments to a person described by Subsection
(a) of this section on the first payment date occurring on or after
the effective date of this Act.
       (c)  A person who is entitled to the resumption of monthly
annuity payments under this section is not entitled to recover
payment for annuity payments not made during the period the
person's annuity was suspended under Section 852.108, Government
Code, as that section existed before amendment by this Act.
       SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2007.