reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
TX Govt Code § 802.302 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 8 - Public Retirement Systems|Subtitle A - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems|Chapter 802 - Administrative Requirements|Subchapter D. Actuarial Analysis of Legislation|Section 802.302. Preparation of Actuarial Analysis

Sec. 802.302.  PREPARATION OF ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS.  (a)  The board shall request a public retirement system affected by a bill or resolution as described by Section 802.301(a) to provide the board with an actuarial analysis.(b)  An actuarial analysis required by this section must be prepared by an actuary who is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, or an enrolled actuary under the Employees Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. Section 1001 et seq.).(c)  A public retirement system that receives a request under Subsection (a) must provide the board with an actuarial analysis on or before the 21st day after the date of the request, if the request relates to a bill or resolution introduced for consideration during a regular legislative session.(d)  The board shall adopt deadlines for the provision under this section of an actuarial analysis that relates to a bill or resolution introduced for consideration during a called legislative session.  The deadlines must be designed to provide the most complete information practicable in a timely manner.(e)  The board may prepare an actuarial analysis for a public retirement system that receives a request under Subsection (a) and does not provide the board with an actuarial analysis within the required period under Subsection (c) or (d).(f)  The public retirement system may reimburse the board's costs incurred in preparing an actuarial analysis under Subsection (e).(g)  For each actuarial analysis that a public retirement system prepares, the board shall have a second actuary:(1)  review the actuarial analysis accompanying the bill or resolution;  and(2)  comment on the reasonableness of each actuarial assumption used in the public retirement system's actuarial analysis.(h)  Even if a public retirement system prepares an actuarial analysis under Subsection (c) or (d), the board may have a second actuary prepare a separate actuarial analysis.(i)  A public retirement system is not prohibited from providing to the legislature any actuarial analysis or information that the system determines necessary or proper.|Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 12.302 and amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 624, Sec. 14, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 802.3021 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 8 - Public Retirement Systems|Subtitle A - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems|Chapter 802 - Administrative Requirements|Subchapter D. Actuarial Analysis of Legislation|Section 802.3021. State Pension Review Board Actuary

Sec. 802.3021.  STATE PENSION REVIEW BOARD ACTUARY.  An actuary who reviews or prepares an actuarial analysis for the board must have at least five years of experience as an actuary working with one or more public retirement systems and must be a fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, or an enrolled actuary under the Employees Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C.  Section 1001 et seq.).|Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 12.207 and amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Redesignated from Sec. 802.302(c) and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 624, Sec. 14, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 802.303 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 8 - Public Retirement Systems|Subtitle A - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems|Chapter 802 - Administrative Requirements|Subchapter D. Actuarial Analysis of Legislation|Section 802.303. Contents of Actuarial Analysis

Sec. 802.303.  CONTENTS OF ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS.  (a)  An actuarial analysis must show the economic effect of the bill or resolution on the public retirement system affected, including a projection of the annual cost to the system of implementing the legislation for at least 10 years.  If the bill or resolution applies to more than one public retirement system, the cost estimates in the analysis may be limited to each affected state-financed public retirement system and each affected public retirement system in a city having a population of 200,000 or more.(b)  An actuarial analysis must include a statement of the actuarial assumptions and methods of computation used in the analysis and a statement of whether or not the bill or resolution, if enacted, will make the affected public retirement system actuarially unsound or, in the case of a system already actuarially unsound, more unsound.(c)  The projection of the effect of the bill or resolution on the actuarial soundness of the system must be based on a computation of advanced funding of actuarial costs.|Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 12.303 by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|
TX Govt Code § 802.304 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 8 - Public Retirement Systems|Subtitle A - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems|Chapter 802 - Administrative Requirements|Subchapter D. Actuarial Analysis of Legislation|Section 802.304. Cost of Actuarial Analysis

Sec. 802.304.  COST OF ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS.  The state may not pay the cost of a required actuarial analysis that is prepared for a public retirement system not financed by the state, except that a sponsor of the bill or resolution for which the analysis is prepared may pay the cost of preparation out of funds available for the sponsor's personal or office expenses.|Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 12.304 by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|
TX Govt Code § 803.001 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 8 - Public Retirement Systems|Subtitle A - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems|Chapter 803 - Proportionate Retirement Program|Subchapter A. General Provisions|Section 803.001. Definitions

Sec. 803.001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:(1)  "Combined service credit" means the total of a person's service credit in only those retirement systems to which this chapter applies for which the total satisfies the length-of-service requirements for service retirement at the person's attained age, and does not include:(A)  any service credit in a retirement system for which the total of a person's service credit does not satisfy the length-of-service requirements for service retirement at the person's attained age;  or(B)  service credit earned with or allowed by a subdivision or municipality not participating in the program provided by this chapter or, as applicable, a subdivision or municipality whose participation is limited as provided by Section 803.103.(2)  "Service credit" means service that is in a person's account in a retirement system to which this chapter applies and that may be used to meet length-of-service requirements for service retirement in that system.(3)  Repealed by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 131, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.|Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 602, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.  Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 13.001 by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 131, Sec. 2, 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 803.002 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 8 - Public Retirement Systems|Subtitle A - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems|Chapter 803 - Proportionate Retirement Program|Subchapter A. General Provisions|Section 803.002. Purpose of Chapter

Sec. 803.002.  PURPOSE OF CHAPTER.  The purpose of this chapter is to implement the authority granted the legislature by Article XVI, Section 67, of the Texas Constitution to provide a program of proportionate benefits to qualified members of more than one retirement system to which this chapter applies.  It is contrary to the purpose of this chapter for a person or class of persons to receive, because of service in more than one retirement system to which this chapter applies, proportionately greater benefits from a particular system than a person who has rendered faithful career service under that one system.|Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 13.002 by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 131, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 803.0021 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 8 - Public Retirement Systems|Subtitle A - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems|Chapter 803 - Proportionate Retirement Program|Subchapter A. General Provisions|Section 803.0021. Application of Chapter

Sec. 803.0021.  APPLICATION OF CHAPTER.  This chapter applies only to:(1)  a retirement system for general municipal employees in a municipality with a population of not less than 750,000 nor more than 850,000;(2)  the Employees Retirement System of Texas, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan One, the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan Two, the Texas County and District Retirement System, and the Texas Municipal Retirement System; and(3)  a retirement system that makes an election under Section 803.101(f).|Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 131, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.  Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1190, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997;  Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 669, Sec. 21, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.Amended by: Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1163 (H.B. 2702), Sec. 21, eff. September 1, 2011.|
TX Govt Code § 803.003 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 8 - Public Retirement Systems|Subtitle A - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems|Chapter 803 - Proportionate Retirement Program|Subchapter A. General Provisions|Section 803.003. Construction of Chapter

Sec. 803.003.  CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPTER.  (a)  The provisions of this chapter are exceptions to the other laws governing retirement systems to which this chapter applies and prevail over those laws to the extent of explicit conflict, but this chapter must be construed strictly as against those laws.(b)  Notwithstanding any other law, a person who is involuntarily transferred to a position included in the coverage of a retirement system governed by Chapter 101, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1933 (Article 6243b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), from a position included in a retirement system operated by a municipality that does not participate in a statewide retirement system governed by Chapter 101, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1933 (Article 6243b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), may make an irrevocable election at the time of the transfer to continue membership in the municipal retirement system.  An involuntary transfer is determined by the employment rules that apply to the person immediately before the time of the involuntary transfer.|Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 13.003 by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 131, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1991;  Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1296, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.|
TX Govt Code § 803.102 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 8 - Public Retirement Systems|Subtitle A - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems|Chapter 803 - Proportionate Retirement Program|Subchapter B. Participation and Membership|Section 803.102. Retirement System Membership

Sec. 803.102.  RETIREMENT SYSTEM MEMBERSHIP.  (a)  Membership in a retirement system to which this chapter applies does not terminate because of absence from service covered by that system during a period for which the member earns service credit in another retirement system to which this chapter applies for service performed for an employer other than a subdivision or municipality not participating in the program provided by this chapter.(b)  A person may continue membership in a retirement system to which this chapter applies while absent from service with all retirement systems to which this chapter applies if the person would be eligible, under the laws governing that system, to continue membership if the person's combined service credit had been earned in that system.(c)  In this section, a person's absence from service begins on the day after the last day of service covered by any retirement system to which this chapter applies.|Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 13.102 by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 131, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 803.103 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 8 - Public Retirement Systems|Subtitle A - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems|Chapter 803 - Proportionate Retirement Program|Subchapter B. Participation and Membership|Section 803.103. Limitation of Participation by Retirement Systems

Sec. 803.103.  LIMITATION OF PARTICIPATION BY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS.  (a)  Participation in the proportionate retirement program by a subdivision participating in the Texas County and District Retirement System or a municipality participating in the Texas Municipal Retirement System does not include:(1)  participation with a retirement system described by Section 803.0021(1) if the subdivision or municipality has elected to so limit its participation and has not revoked the election under Subsection (b);  or(2)  participation with a retirement system described by Section 803.0021(3).(b)  A subdivision or municipality that has elected to limit its participation in the proportionate retirement program may revoke the election and remove the limitation on participation.  An election under this subsection may be made by vote of the governing body of the subdivision or municipality in the manner required for official actions of the governing body.  The governing body shall send notice of an election under this subsection to the board of trustees of the retirement system in which the subdivision or municipality participates.(c)  The effective date of a removal of a limitation on participation in the proportionate retirement program by a subdivision or municipality electing under Subsection (b) is the first day of the month after the month in which the appropriate board of trustees receives notice of the election.|Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 131, Sec. 6, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.  Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1190, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.|
TX Govt Code § 803.201 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 8 - Public Retirement Systems|Subtitle A - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems|Chapter 803 - Proportionate Retirement Program|Subchapter C. Creditable Service|Section 803.201. Retirement Eligibility Based on Combined Service Credit

Sec. 803.201.  RETIREMENT ELIGIBILITY BASED ON COMBINED SERVICE CREDIT.  (a)  A person who has membership in two or more retirement systems to which this chapter applies is subject to the laws governing each of those systems for determination of the person's eligibility for service retirement benefits from each system, except that, for the purpose of determining whether a person meets the length-of-service requirements for service retirement of a system, the person's combined service credit must be considered as if it were all credited in each system.(b)  A person's combined service credit is useable only in determining eligibility for service retirement benefits and may not be used in determining:(1)  eligibility for disability retirement benefits, death benefits, or any type of benefit other than service retirement benefits;  nor(2)  the amount of any type of benefit.(c)  A person receiving service retirement or lifetime disability retirement benefits from one or more retirement systems to which this chapter applies may use the program provided by this chapter to qualify for subsequent service retirement under another retirement system to which this chapter applies in which the person has service credit, if the person was not eligible to retire under the latter system at the time of previous service retirement, or qualification for lifetime disability retirement benefits from a retirement system to which this chapter applies, or if the person's previous retirement was not based on combined service credit.(d)  Service credit earned with or allowed by more than one retirement system to which this chapter applies for the same service may be counted only once in determining the amount of a person's combined service credit.|Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 13.201 and amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 616, Sec. 2, eff. June 14, 1989;  Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 131, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 803.202 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 8 - Public Retirement Systems|Subtitle A - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems|Chapter 803 - Proportionate Retirement Program|Subchapter C. Creditable Service|Section 803.202. Service in Certain Retirement Systems

Sec. 803.202.  SERVICE IN CERTAIN RETIREMENT SYSTEMS.  (a)  The board of trustees of the Employees Retirement System of Texas by rule may:(1)  consider the classes of service in the Employees Retirement System of Texas as if they were, for purposes of this chapter, classes in separate statewide retirement systems;  or(2)  permit a person who is retiring exclusively from retirement systems administered by the board to use the shortest length-of-service requirement provided for retirement in any class in which the person has service credit.(b)  A member of a retirement system administered by the board of trustees of the Employees Retirement System of Texas may reestablish service credit previously canceled in another retirement system administered by the board if the member holds a position included in the system of which the person is a member and has held the position for at least 12 months.  The method of reestablishment and the amount to be deposited are as provided by the applicable law providing for reestablishment of service credit generally in the particular retirement system.(c)  A member of the Employees Retirement System of Texas who is subject to Chapter 820 is eligible to participate in the program provided by this chapter.|Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 13.202 by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 791, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.Amended by: Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 940 (S.B. 321), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2021.|
TX Govt Code § 803.204 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 8 - Public Retirement Systems|Subtitle A - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems|Chapter 803 - Proportionate Retirement Program|Subchapter C. Creditable Service|Section 803.204. Combined Service Credit in Certain Systems

Sec. 803.204.  COMBINED SERVICE CREDIT IN CERTAIN SYSTEMS.  (a)  This section applies only to an employee who:(1)  is a member of a municipal retirement system described by Section 803.0021(1);(2)  is employed by a hospital district, a charitable organization supervised, overseen, and effectively controlled by the hospital district, or an administrative agency created under Section 791.013, either before or after being employed by the employing municipality located in the same county as the hospital district, charitable organization, or administrative agency; and(3)  participates in a public retirement system:(A)  that is determined to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a), Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Section 401(a)), of a hospital district, charitable organization, or administrative agency that is determined to be a governmental unit, or an agency or an instrumentality of a governmental unit; and(B)  that records and reports service credit as defined by Section 803.001.(b)  Any service credit earned by an employee described by Subsection (a) with a retirement system established by the hospital district, charitable organization, or administrative agency will be combined under Section 803.201 to determine whether the employee meets the length-of-service requirements for service retirement under the municipal retirement system.(c)  On retirement, an employee described by Subsection (a) will receive a benefit from the municipal retirement system as determined by Subchapter D, and if the hospital district or administrative agency has established or participates in a retirement program or the charitable organization has a retirement plan, will receive a benefit from the hospital district, administrative agency, or charitable organization as determined by the terms of the district's, agency's, or organization's retirement plan.(d)  For purposes of this section, a charitable organization supervised, overseen, and effectively controlled by a hospital district or an administrative agency created under Section 791.013 is an agency or instrumentality of a governmental unit.|Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 164 (S.B. 1107), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007.Amended by: Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 217 (S.B. 1063), Sec. 2, eff. May 27, 2009.|
TX Govt Code § 803.301 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 8 - Public Retirement Systems|Subtitle A - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems|Chapter 803 - Proportionate Retirement Program|Subchapter D. Benefits|Section 803.301. Computation of Benefits Generally

Sec. 803.301.  COMPUTATION OF BENEFITS GENERALLY.  The amount of a benefit payable by a retirement system to which this chapter applies is determined according to and in the manner prescribed by laws governing that system and is based solely on a person's service credit in that system.|Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 13.301 by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 131, Sec. 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.|