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1	1	By: Leach (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) H.B. No. 2779
2	2	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2023;
3	3	May 16, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
4	4	May 21, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
5	5	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 16, Nays 0; May 21, 2023,
6	6	sent to printer.)
7	7	Click here to see the committee vote
8	8	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2779 By: Huffman
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11	11	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
12	12	AN ACT
13	13	relating to the compensation and retirement benefits of certain
14	14	elected state officials.
15	15	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
16	16	SECTION 1. Section 659.012(b), Government Code, is amended
17	17	to read as follows:
18	18	(b) A judge or justice for whom the amount of a state base
19	19	salary is prescribed by Subsection (a) is entitled to an annual
20	20	salary from the state in the amount equal to:
21	21	(1) 110 percent of the state base salary paid in
22	22	accordance with Subsection (a) for the judge's or justice's
23	23	position, beginning with the pay period that begins after the judge
24	24	or justice accrues four years of:
25	25	(A) contributing service credit in the Judicial
26	26	Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement
27	27	System of Texas Plan Two;
28	28	(B) service as a judge of a statutory county
29	29	court, multicounty statutory county court, or statutory probate
30	30	court; or
31	31	(C) combined contributing service credit and
32	32	service as provided by Paragraphs (A) and (B); [and]
33	33	(2) 120 percent of the state base salary paid in
34	34	accordance with Subsection (a) for the judge's or justice's
35	35	position, beginning with the pay period that begins after the judge
36	36	or justice accrues eight years of:
37	37	(A) contributing service credit in the Judicial
38	38	Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement
39	39	System of Texas Plan Two;
40	40	(B) service as a judge of a statutory county
41	41	court, multicounty statutory county court, or statutory probate
42	42	court; or
43	43	(C) combined contributing service credit and
44	44	service as provided by Paragraphs (A) and (B); and
45	45	(3) 130 percent of the state base salary paid in
46	46	accordance with Subsection (a) for the judge's or justice's
47	47	position, beginning with the pay period that begins after the judge
48	48	or justice accrues 12 years of:
49	49	(A) contributing service credit in the Judicial
50	50	Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement
51	51	System of Texas Plan Two;
52	52	(B) service as a judge of a statutory county
53	53	court, multicounty statutory county court, or statutory probate
54	54	court; or
55	55	(C) combined contributing service credit and
56	56	service as provided by Paragraphs (A) and (B).
57	57	SECTION 2. Section 659.0445(b), Government Code, is amended
58	58	to read as follows:
59	59	(b) The monthly amount of longevity pay under this section
60	60	to which a judge or justice described by Subsection (a) is entitled:
61	61	(1) is equal to the product of 0.05 multiplied by the
62	62	amount of the judge's or justice's current monthly state salary; and
63	63	(2) becomes payable beginning with the month following
64	64	the month in which the judge or justice completes 14 [12] years of
65	65	service for which credit is established in the applicable
66	66	retirement system.
67	67	SECTION 3. Sections 814.103(a) and (a-1), Government Code,
68	68	are amended to read as follows:
69	69	(a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1) or (b), the
70	70	standard service retirement annuity for service credited in the
71	71	elected class of membership is an amount equal to the number of
72	72	years of service credit in that class, times 2.3 percent of the
73	73	state base salary, excluding longevity pay payable under Section
74	74	659.0445 [and as adjusted from time to time], being paid to a
75	75	district judge as set by the General Appropriations Act in
76	76	accordance with Section 659.012(a).
77	77	(a-1) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the standard
78	78	service retirement annuity for service credited in the elected
79	79	class of membership for a member of the class under Section
80	80	812.002(a)(3) whose effective date of retirement is on or after
81	81	September 1, 2019, is an amount equal to the number of years of
82	82	service credit in that class, times 2.3 percent of the state salary,
83	83	excluding longevity pay payable under Section 659.0445 [and as
84	84	adjusted from time to time], being paid in accordance with Section
85	85	659.012 to a district judge who has the same number of years of
86	86	contributing service credit as the member on the member's last day
87	87	of service as a district or criminal district attorney, as
88	88	applicable.
89	89	SECTION 4. Section 834.102(a), Government Code, is amended
90	90	to read as follows:
91	91	(a) The base service retirement annuity for a person whose
92	92	effective date of retirement is:
93	93	(1) before September 1, 2019, is an amount equal to 50
94	94	percent of the state base salary[, as adjusted from time to time,]
95	95	being paid in accordance with Section 659.012(a) to a judge of a
96	96	court of the same classification as the court on which the retiree
97	97	last served before retirement; or
98	98	(2) on or after September 1, 2019, is an amount equal
99	99	to 50 percent of the state salary[, as adjusted from time to time,]
100	100	being paid in accordance with Section 659.012(b)(2) to a judge of a
101	101	court of the same classification as the court on which the retiree
102	102	last served before retirement.
103	103	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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