By: Schwertner, West S.B. No. 483
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a biennial report on the investment returns of the
Employees Retirement System of Texas and the Teacher Retirement
System of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 802, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 802.1085 to read as follows:
Sec. 802.1085. BIENNIAL REPORT ON INVESTMENT RETURNS OF
CERTAIN PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEMS. (a) This section applies only
to the:
(1) Employees Retirement System of Texas; and
(2) Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
(b) Not later than December 31 of each even-numbered year,
the governing body of a public retirement system shall submit to the
governor, the lieutenant governor, and each member of the
legislature a report that details and compares the assumed rate of
return and the annualized actual time-weighted rate of return
achieved by the system for the most recent 1-year, 5-year, 10-year,
and 20-year fiscal periods. The report must include:
(1) for each period, an estimate of what the market
value of the invested assets of the fund would have been as of the
most recent fiscal year end had the system achieved the applicable
assumed rate of return; and
(2) a comparison of each estimate described by
Subdivision (1) and the actual market value of the invested assets
in the fund as of the most recent fiscal year end.
(c) The report required by this section may be combined with
any other report required by law.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.