Bill Text: TX HB1086 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB1086 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1086-Introduced.html
By: Curry | H.B. No. 1086 |
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relating to a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain | ||
benefits paid by the Employees Retirement System of Texas. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 814, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 814.605 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 814.605. ONE-TIME ADJUSTMENT TO BENEFITS. (a) The | ||
amount of a monthly service retirement benefit, disability | ||
retirement benefit, or death benefit paid under this chapter or | ||
Chapter 820 to a retiree or beneficiary for service credited in the | ||
employee class is increased to include a one-time 10 percent | ||
adjustment in accordance with this section. | ||
(b) The board of trustees shall recompute the amount of a | ||
benefit paid monthly under this chapter by applying the 10 percent | ||
adjustment to the monthly amount otherwise required to be paid as | ||
determined in accordance with this chapter. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 814.605, Government Code, as added by | ||
this Act, applies only to a monthly benefit payment made by the | ||
Employees Retirement System of Texas on or after September 1, 2025. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |