88R12601 JCG-D
By: Bell of Montgomery H.B. No. 4324
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the purchase of service credit in the Employees
Retirement System of Texas by members of the Texas military forces.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 813, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 813.300 to read as follows:
Sec. 813.300. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter, "state
active duty," "state training and other duty," and "Texas military
forces" have the meanings assigned by Section 437.001.
SECTION 2. Section 813.301(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) Military service creditable in the retirement system
is:
(1) active federal duty as a member of the armed forces
of the United States; or
(2) state active duty or state training and other
duty, as a member of the Texas military forces.
SECTION 3. Section 813.304(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The retirement system shall use military service credit
in computing service retirement or nonoccupational disability
retirement benefits of a member of the employee class, regardless
of the amount of service credit the member has in that class [only
if the member has, without military service credit, at least five
years of service credit in that class].
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.