88R7437 JTZ-D
 
  By: Vasut H.B. No. 1985
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the service credit used in calculating longevity pay
  for certain judges and justices with prior full-time service as an
  associate judge.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 659.012(b), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  A judge or justice for whom the amount of a state base
  salary is prescribed by Subsection (a) is entitled to an annual
  salary from the state in the amount equal to:
               (1)  110 percent of the state base salary paid in
  accordance with Subsection (a) for the judge's or justice's
  position, beginning with the pay period that begins after the judge
  or justice accrues four years of:
                     (A)  contributing service credit in the Judicial
  Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement
  System of Texas Plan Two;
                     (B)  service as a judge or a full-time associate
  judge of a district court, statutory county court, multicounty
  statutory county court, or statutory probate court; or
                     (C)  combined contributing service credit and
  service as provided by Paragraphs (A) and (B); and
               (2)  120 percent of the state base salary paid in
  accordance with Subsection (a) for the judge's or justice's
  position, beginning with the pay period that begins after the judge
  or justice accrues eight years of:
                     (A)  contributing service credit in the Judicial
  Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement
  System of Texas Plan Two;
                     (B)  service as a judge or a full-time associate
  judge of a district court, statutory county court, multicounty
  statutory county court, or statutory probate court; or
                     (C)  combined contributing service credit and
  service as provided by Paragraphs (A) and (B).
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.