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1	1	By: Strama (Senate Sponsor - Watson) H.B. No. 1608
2	2	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 16, 2011;
3	3	May 16, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on State
4	4	Affairs; May 19, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote:
5	5	Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 2011, sent to printer.)
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8	8	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
9	9	AN ACT
10	10	relating to participation in and contributions to the state
11	11	employee charitable campaign by retired state employees.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Section 659.140(c), Government Code, is amended
14	14	to read as follows:
15	15	(c) The [Each member of the] state policy committee must:
16	16	(1) be composed of employees and retired state
17	17	employees receiving benefits under Chapter 814; and
18	18	(2) [a state employee. The membership must] represent
19	19	employees at different levels of employee classification.
20	20	SECTION 2. Section 659.143(b), Government Code, is amended
21	21	to read as follows:
22	22	(b) The presiding officer of a local employee committee
23	23	shall recruit at least five but not more than 10 additional members.
24	24	The members must represent different levels of employee
25	25	classification. One or more members may be retired state employees
26	26	receiving retirement benefits under Chapter 814.
27	27	SECTION 3. The heading to Section 814.009, Government Code,
28	28	is amended to read as follows:
29	29	Sec. 814.009. DEDUCTION FROM ANNUITY FOR STATE EMPLOYEE
30	30	ORGANIZATION.
31	31	SECTION 4. Subchapter A, Chapter 814, Government Code, is
32	32	amended by adding Sections 814.0095 and 814.0096 to read as
33	33	follows:
34	34	Sec. 814.0095. CHARITABLE DEDUCTION FROM ANNUITY. (a)
35	35	Except as provided by Section 814.0096(c), a person who receives an
36	36	annuity under this subchapter may, on a printed or electronic form
37	37	filed with the retirement system, authorize the retirement system
38	38	to deduct from the person's monthly annuity payment the amount of a
39	39	contribution to the state employee charitable campaign in the
40	40	manner and for the same purposes for which a state employee may
41	41	authorize deductions to that campaign under Subchapter I, Chapter
42	42	659.
43	43	(b) An authorization under this section must direct the
44	44	board of trustees to deposit the deducted funds with the
45	45	comptroller for distribution as required by Section 659.132(g) in
46	46	the same manner in which a state employee's deduction is
47	47	distributed.
48	48	(c) An authorization under this section remains in effect
49	49	for the period described by Section 659.137 unless the person
50	50	revokes the authorization by giving notice to the board of
51	51	trustees.
52	52	(d) The board of trustees may adopt rules to administer this
53	53	section. Any rules adopted must be consistent with the
54	54	comptroller's rules related to the state employee charitable
55	55	campaign.
56	56	Sec. 814.0096. COORDINATION WITH STATE EMPLOYEE CHARITABLE
57	57	CAMPAIGN POLICY COMMITTEE. (a) The board of trustees and the state
58	58	employee charitable campaign policy committee established under
59	59	Section 659.140 shall coordinate responsibility for the
60	60	administration of charitable deductions from annuity payments to
61	61	the state employee charitable campaign under Section 814.0095.
62	62	(b) The state policy committee is authorized to approve a
63	63	budget that includes funding for as many of the expenses incurred by
64	64	the retirement system associated with the implementation and
65	65	administration of annuitants' participation in the state employee
66	66	charitable campaign as is practicable, including notification of
67	67	annuitants.
68	68	(c) Except as provided by this subsection, the board of
69	69	trustees shall charge an administrative fee to cover any costs not
70	70	paid under Subsection (b) in the implementation of Section 814.0095
71	71	to the charitable organizations participating in the state employee
72	72	charitable campaign conducted under that section in the same
73	73	proportion that the contributions to that charitable organization
74	74	bear to the total of contributions in that campaign. The board of
75	75	trustees shall determine the most efficient and effective method of
76	76	collecting the administrative fee and shall adopt rules for the
77	77	implementation of this subsection.
78	78	(d) If necessary, the board of trustees and the state policy
79	79	committee may make the annuity deduction authorization under
80	80	Section 814.0095(a) available in stages to subgroups of the
81	81	retirement system's annuity recipients as money becomes available
82	82	to cover the expenses under Subsection (b) of this section.
83	83	SECTION 5. (a) The board of trustees of the Employees
84	84	Retirement System of Texas, in cooperation with the comptroller and
85	85	the state employee charitable campaign policy committee
86	86	established under Section 659.140, Government Code, as amended by
87	87	this Act, may adopt rules to implement Sections 814.0095 and
88	88	814.0096, Government Code, as added by this Act.
89	89	(b) The board of trustees of the Employees Retirement System
90	90	of Texas by rule shall designate the start date on which annuity
91	91	deductions begin under Sections 814.0095 and 814.0096, Government
92	92	Code, as added by this Act.
93	93	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
94	94	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
95	95	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
96	96	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
97	97	Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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