Bill Text: TX SB1812 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the determination of state contributions for participation by certain junior college employees in the state employees group benefits program, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, and the Optional Retirement Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB1812 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB1812-Introduced.html

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By: Duncan S.B. No. 1812

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to state contributions for participation by certain junior
college employees in the state employees group benefits program,
Teacher Retirement System of Texas, and Optional Retirement System.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 1551, Insurance Code, is
amended by adding Section 1551.3111 to read as follows:
Sec. 1551.3111. AMOUNT OF STATE CONTRIBUTION FOR CERTAIN
JUNIOR COLLEGE EMPLOYEES. (a) In determining the amount to be
certified under Section 1551.311, the board of trustees shall
include fifty percent of the cost associated with instructional or
administrative employees of public junior colleges.
SECTION 2. Sec. 825.404. COLLECTION OF STATE CONTRIBUTIONS
AND APPROPRIATED OPERATING EXPENSES. (a) During each fiscal
year, the state shall contribute to the retirement system an amount
equal to at least six and not more than 10 percent of the aggregate
annual compensation of all members of the retirement system during
that fiscal year. The amount of the state contribution made under
this section may not be less than the amount contributed by members
during that fiscal year in accordance with Section 825.402.
(b) Before November 2 of each even-numbered year, the board
of trustees shall certify to the comptroller of public accounts for
review and adoption an estimate of the amount necessary to pay the
state's contributions to the retirement system for the following
biennium. The board of trustees shall only include fifty percent of
the cost associated with instructional or administrative employees
of public junior colleges.
(c) The amount certified under Subsection (b) shall be
included in the state budget that the governor submits to the
legislature.
(d) The legislature shall appropriate from the general
revenue fund a specified amount of money to be used to pay operating
expenses of the retirement system for each fiscal year.
(e) All money appropriated by the state to the retirement
system shall be paid to the state contribution account in equal
monthly installments as provided by Section 403.093(c), Government
Code, except money appropriated under Subsection (d), which remains
in the general revenue fund until expenses are approved under
Chapter 2103.
SECTION 3. Section 825.407, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 825.407. COLLECTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
NONEDUCATIONAL AND GENERAL FUNDS. (a) In this section:
(1) "General academic teaching institution" has the
meaning assigned by Section 61.003, Education Code.
(2) "Medical and dental unit" has the meaning assigned
by Section 61.003, Education Code.
(3) "Noneducational and general funds" means all funds
of an institution of higher education except those funds used as a
method of financing for an institutional appropriation in the
General Appropriations Act or dedicated by the Constitution of the
State of Texas.
(4) "Public junior college" has the meaning assigned
by Section 61.003, Education Code.
(b) The governing board of each general academic teaching
institution, the governing board of each public junior college or
each public junior college district, and the governing board of
each medical and dental unit shall reimburse the state, from
noneducational and general funds of the institution, public junior
college, or unit, for state contributions that are made based on any
portion of a member's salary that is paid from the noneducational
and general funds.
(c) The designated disbursing officer of each general
academic teaching institution, public junior college, and [the
designated disbursing officer of each ] medical and dental unit
shall:
(1) submit to the retirement system, at a time and in
the manner prescribed by the retirement system, a monthly report
containing a certification of the total amount of salary paid from
noneducational and general funds and the total amount of employer
contributions due under this section for the payroll period; and
(2) maintain and retain the following information:
(A) the name of each member employed by the
institution, public junior college, or unit who, for the most
recent payroll period, was paid wholly or partly from
noneducational and general funds;
(B) the amount of the employee's salary for the
most recent payroll period that was paid from noneducational and
general funds; and
(C) any other information the retirement system
determines is necessary to administer this section.
(d) A monthly report required under Subsection (c) shall be
accompanied by payment of the amount certified under Subdivision
(1) [(3) ]of that subsection.
(e) After the end of each fiscal year, the retirement system
shall report to the comptroller of public accounts and the State
Auditor the name of any general academic teaching institution, any
public junior college, and any medical and dental unit delinquent
in the reimbursement of contributions under this section for the
preceding fiscal year and the amount by which each reported
institution, public junior college, or unit is delinquent.
(f) Any portion of the reimbursement required under this
section to be made for a fiscal year by a general academic teaching
institution, public junior college, or a medical and dental unit
that remains unpaid on the first day of the next fiscal year accrues
interest, beginning on that day or the due date for the portion,
whichever is later, at an annual rate, compounded monthly, equal to
the rate established under Section 825.313(b)(1), plus two percent.
(g) The retirement system shall deposit all money it
receives under this section in the state contribution account.
SECTION 4. 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, 2013.