81R485 SGA-D
By: Jackson H.B. No. 212
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the transfer of service credits to or from the elected
class in the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 813.503(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) A member may establish in, or have transferred to, the
employee class all service credited in the elected class, if the
contributions made to establish the service in the elected class
equal or exceed contributions required of a member of the employee
class for the same amount of service during the same time and at the
same rate of compensation. The member before retirement may
transfer the service credit back to the elected class. [A member or
retiree who has, or had at the time of retirement, at least eight
years of service credit in the elected class of membership,
exclusive of military service, may transfer service credit between
classes before or after retirement.]
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
813.503(a), Government Code, applies only to service credit for
which a notification of transfer is made to the Employees
Retirement System of Texas on or after the effective date of this
Act. Service credit for which a notification of transfer is made
under Section 813.503(a), Government Code, before that date is
subject to the law in effect at the time the notification is made,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect August 1, 2009, 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 effect on that
date, this Act takes effect September 1, 2009.