88R22249 KFF-D
 
  By: Anchía, Rose, Frazier, H.B. No. 4653
      González of Dallas, Meyer, et al.
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4653:
 
  By:  Capriglione C.S.H.B. No. 4653
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to participation in a deferred retirement option plan by
  members of the retirement systems for police and fire fighters in
  certain municipalities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 6.14(c), Article 6243a-1, Revised
  Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
         (c)  Each month after a member has made an election to
  participate in the DROP and indicated a desire to receive a
  retirement pension under Sections 6.01(b) and (c), Section 6.01(e),
  or Section 6.02(b), (c), (d), or (e) of this article, whichever is
  applicable, and through the month before the month in which the
  member leaves active service, an amount equal to the retirement
  pension the member would have received under the applicable
  subsection for that month if the member had left active service and
  been granted a retirement pension by the board on the effective date
  of DROP participation shall be credited to a separate DROP account
  maintained within the fund for the benefit of the member.  Amounts
  held in the DROP account of a member shall be credited at the end of
  each calendar month.  Notwithstanding this section, effective
  January 1, 2018, a member on active service who has 20 [10] years or
  more of participation in DROP shall no longer have the amount of the
  member's retirement pension credited to the member's DROP account
  while the member is on active service.
         SECTION 2.  (a) Subsection to Subsection (b) of this
  section, Section 6.14(c), Article 6243a-1, Revised Statutes, as
  amended by this Act, applies to a member who participates in the
  deferred retirement option plan established under that section
  regardless of whether the member began participation in the plan
  before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
         (b)  A member described by Subsection (a) of this section
  whose retirement pension ceased being credited to the member's
  deferred retirement option plan account on or after January 1,
  2018, under Section 6.14(c), Article 6243a-1, Revised Statutes, as
  that section existed immediately before the effective date of this
  Act, is not entitled to have amounts credited to the member's
  account for the period beginning on the date the member's
  retirement pension ceased being credited and ending on August 31,
  2023.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.