86R11602 KFF-D
By: Meza H.B. No. 2542
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the administration of and benefits payable under the
Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 824.601(b-1) and (f), Government Code,
are amended to read as follows:
(b-1) Subsection (b) does not apply to a retiree:
(1) under Section 824.202 whose effective date of
retirement is on or before August 31, 2018; or
(2) who commits a minor violation of a provision of
this subchapter, including a minor violation of an exception
provided by Section 824.602, unless the violation occurs frequently
[January 1, 2011].
(f) The system shall [may] adopt rules necessary for
administering this subchapter, including rules necessary to
implement Subsection (b-1)(2).
SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 825, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 825.521 to read as follows:
Sec. 825.521. DEADLINE TO APPEAL FINAL ADMINISTRATIVE
DECISION. In adopting rules governing the appeal of a final
administrative decision made by the retirement system, the board of
trustees shall ensure that rules establishing deadlines for the
filing of an appeal afford a member or retiree at least the same
amount of time to file an appeal as the retirement system had to
issue the retirement system's decision.
SECTION 3. (a) A person who resumed employment after
retirement and whose benefit payments were suspended under Section
824.601, Government Code, as that section existed before amendment
by this Act, is entitled to the resumption of monthly benefit
payments if the person meets the requirements of Section
824.601(b-1), Government Code, as amended by this Act.
(b) The Teacher Retirement System of Texas shall resume
making monthly benefit payments to a person described by Subsection
(a) of this section on the first payment date occurring on or after
the effective date of this Act.
(c) A person who is entitled to the resumption of monthly
benefit payments under this section is not entitled to recover
benefit payments not made during the period the person's benefit
was suspended under Section 824.601, Government Code, as that
section existed before amendment by this Act.
SECTION 4. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective
date of this Act, the board of trustees of the Teacher Retirement
System of Texas shall adopt rules necessary to implement Section
825.521, Government Code, as added by this Act.
(b) The change in law made by Section 825.521, Government
Code, as added by this Act, applies only to the appeal of an
administrative decision of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas
made on or after January 1, 2020. An appeal of a decision made
before January 1, 2020, is governed by the law as it existed
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.