Bill Text: TX HB1985 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the service credit used in calculating longevity pay for certain judges and justices with prior full-time service as an associate judge.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-12 - Referred to Finance [HB1985 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1985-Engrossed.html
88R7437 JTZ-D | ||
By: Vasut | H.B. No. 1985 |
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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. |