TITLE: Relating to the compensation and retirement benefits of certain elected state officials.

SUMMARY: Relating to the compensation and retirement benefits of certain elected state officials.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to the compensation and retirement benefits of certain elected state officials. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 659.012(b), Government Code, is amended to read as follows: (b) A judge or justice for whom the amount of a state base salary is prescribed by Subsection (a) is entitled to an annual salary from the state in the amount equal to: (1) 110 percent of the state base salary paid in accordance with Subsection (a) for the judge's or justice's position, beginning with the pay period that begins after the judge or justice accrues four years of: (A) contributing service credit in the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan Two; (B) service as a judge of a statutory county court, multicounty statutory county court, or statutory probate court; or (C) combined contributing service credit and service as provided by Paragraphs (A) and (B); [and] (2) 120 percent of the state base salary paid in accordance with Subsection (a) for the judge's or justice's position, beginning with the pay period that begins after the judge or justice accrues eight years of: (A) contributing service credit in the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan Two; (B) service as a judge of a statutory county court, multicounty statutory county court, or statutory probate court; or (C) combined contributing service credit and service as provided by Paragraphs (A) and (B);and (3) 130 percent of the state base salary paid in accordance with Subsection (a) for the judge's or justice's position, beginning with the pay period that begins after the judge or justice accrues 12 years of: (A) contributing service credit in the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan Two; (B) service as a judge of a statutory county court, multicounty statutory county court, or statutory probate court; or (C) combined contributing service credit and service as provided by Paragraphs (A) and (B).SECTION 2. Section 659.0445(b), Government Code, is amended to read as follows: (b) The monthly amount of longevity pay under this section to which a judge or justice described by Subsection (a) is entitled: (1) is equal to the product of 0.05 multiplied by the amount of the judge's or justice's current monthly state salary; and (2) becomes payable beginning with the month following the month in which the judge or justice completes 14 [12] years of service for which credit is established in the applicable retirement system. SECTION 3. Sections 814.103(a) and (a-1), Government Code, are amended to read as follows: (a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1) or (b), the standard service retirement annuity for service credited in the elected class of membership is an amount equal to the number of years of service credit in that class, times 2.3 percent of the state base salary, excluding longevity pay payable under Section 659.0445 [and as adjusted from time to time],being paid to a district judge as set by the General Appropriations Act in accordance with Section 659.012(a). (a-1) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the standard service retirement annuity for service credited in the elected class of membership for a member of the class under Section 812.002(a)(3) whose effective date of retirement is on or after September 1, 2019, is an amount equal to the number of years of service credit in that class, times 2.3 percent of the state salary, excluding longevity pay payable under Section 659.0445 [and as adjusted from time to time],being paid in accordance with Section 659.012 to a district judge who has the same number of years of contributing service credit as the member on the member's last day of service as a district or criminal district attorney, as applicable. SECTION 4. Section 834.102(a), Government Code, is amended to read as follows: (a) The base service retirement annuity for a person whose effective date of retirement is: (1) before September 1, 2019, is an amount equal to 50 percent of the state base salary [ as adjusted from time to time] being paid in accordance with Section 659.012(a) to a judge of a court of the same classification as the court on which the retiree last served before retirement; or (2) on or after September 1, 2019, is an amount equal to 50 percent of the state salary [ as adjusted from time to time] being paid in accordance with Section 659.012(b)(2) to a judge of a court of the same classification as the court on which the retiree last served before retirement. SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.