Bill Text: TX HB2538 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to participation in the Texas County and District Retirement System.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-11 - Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services [HB2538 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2538-Introduced.html
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By: Harless | H.B. No. 2538 |
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relating to participation in the Texas County and District | ||
Retirement System. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 841.001(17), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(17) "Subdivision" means a political subdivision of | ||
the state that is not eligible to participate in any other statewide | ||
retirement system or that is not currently participating in a | ||
retirement system established by the legislature. The term | ||
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Subchapter B, Chapter 265, Health and Safety Code. The term does | ||
not include: | ||
(A) a branch, division, department, employee | ||
classification group, or other separately identified component of a | ||
political subdivision; or | ||
(B) an incorporated nongovernmental entity, | ||
nonprofit corporation, or other external service provider of a | ||
political subdivision. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act does not | ||
affect a person who is a retiree in the Texas County and District | ||
Retirement System before the effective date of this Act, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
(b) On the effective date of this Act, an individual who is a | ||
member of the Texas County and District Retirement System who is | ||
employed by an entity that is not a subdivision for purposes of | ||
Section 841.001(17), Government Code, as amended by this Act, is | ||
treated as an individual who separates from employment with a | ||
participating subdivision as a vested member of the system, as | ||
defined by Section 841.001, Government Code. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |