Bill Text: TX HB2109 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to preventing the loss of benefits by certain retirees of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas who resume service.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-21 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2109 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2109-Comm_Sub.html
87R11632 JCG-D | |||
By: Wu, Anchia, Dean, Ordaz Perez, Allen | H.B. No. 2109 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2109: | |||
By: Vo | C.S.H.B. No. 2109 |
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relating to preventing the loss of benefits by certain retirees of | ||
the Teacher Retirement System of Texas who resume service. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 824.601, Government Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-3) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (b-1) or (b-3) or | ||
Section 824.602 and subject to Subsection (b-2), a retiree is not | ||
entitled to service or disability retirement benefit payments, as | ||
applicable, for any month in which the retiree is employed in any | ||
position by a Texas public educational institution. | ||
(b-3) The retirement system may not under this section | ||
withhold a monthly benefit payment for a retiree who retired under | ||
Section 824.202 and qualified for an exception under Section | ||
824.602 unless: | ||
(1) with respect to the first occurrence of the | ||
retiree's employment that does not qualify for the exception under | ||
Section 824.602, the system issued a written warning notifying the | ||
retiree of that fact; and | ||
(2) in a month following the month in which the system | ||
issued the warning described by Subdivision (1) and with respect to | ||
a subsequent occurrence of the retiree's continued employment that | ||
does not qualify for the exception under Section 824.602, the | ||
system issued a written notice: | ||
(A) warning the retiree of the fact described by | ||
Subdivision (2); and | ||
(B) requiring the retiree to pay to the system, | ||
in a form and manner prescribed by the system, an amount elected by | ||
the retiree that equals the total sum the retiree: | ||
(i) earned for all employment by Texas | ||
public educational institutions for each month occurring after the | ||
issuance of the warning under Subdivision (1) and before the month | ||
the system began withholding benefit payments under this section; | ||
or | ||
(ii) received in retirement benefit | ||
payments for each month occurring after the issuance of the warning | ||
under Subdivision (1) and before the month the system began | ||
withholding benefit payments under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 824.601, Government Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies only to the employment of a retiree of the Teacher | ||
Retirement System of Texas on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas shall adopt | ||
rules as necessary to implement Section 824.601, Government Code, | ||
as amended by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |