Title GV, Government Code

Sec. 839.005. PROVISIONS INAPPLICABLE TO CASH BALANCE GROUP MEMBERS. The following provisions of this chapter do not apply to a cash balance group member: (1) Section 839.002; and (2) Subchapters B and E. Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1092 (S.B. 1245), Sec. 8, eff. Jun…

Sec. 839.101. ELIGIBILITY FOR SERVICE RETIREMENT ANNUITY. (a) A member is eligible to retire and receive a service retirement annuity if the member: (1) is at least 65 years old, currently holds a judicial office, and has at least 10 years of service credited in the retirement sy…

Sec. 839.102. SERVICE RETIREMENT ANNUITY. (a) Except as provided by Subsections (b), (c), (d), and (f), the standard service retirement annuity is an amount equal to 50 percent of the state annual salary as set by the General Appropriations Act in accordance with Section 659.012 …

Sec. 839.103. OPTIONAL SERVICE RETIREMENT ANNUITY. (a) Instead of a service retirement annuity payable under Section 839.102, a retiring member may elect to receive one of the following optional service retirement annuities, actuarially reduced to an actuarially equivalent value …

Sec. 839.201. ELIGIBILITY FOR DISABILITY RETIREMENT ANNUITY. (a) A member, other than a member who is eligible to receive a service retirement annuity under Section 839.101 or a cash balance annuity under Section 840A.052, is eligible, regardless of age, to retire from regular ac…

Sec. 839.202. APPLICATION FOR DISABILITY RETIREMENT ANNUITY. (a) A member may apply for a disability retirement annuity by: (1) filing an application for retirement with the board of trustees; or (2) having an application filed with the board of trustees by the member's spouse, e…

Sec. 839.2025. DETERMINATION OF DISABILITY. (a) In determining whether a member is mentally or physically incapacitated for the further performance of regular judicial duties, the medical board designated under Section 840.202 may apply the standard prescribed by Section 814.203.…

Sec. 839.203. DISABILITY RETIREMENT ANNUITY. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) or (c), a disability retirement annuity is an amount computed as provided by Section 839.102. (b) The amount of a disability retirement annuity is not reducible because of the age of the retirin…

Sec. 839.301. SELECTION OF DEATH BENEFIT PLAN BY MEMBER. (a) An eligible member may select a death benefit plan for the payment of a death benefit annuity, to be paid if the member dies before retirement. Except as provided by Subsections (c) and (d), a death benefit annuity is a…

Sec. 839.302. SELECTION OF DEATH BENEFIT PLAN BY SURVIVOR OF MEMBER. If a member eligible to select a death benefit plan under Section 839.301 dies without having made a selection or if a plan selected cannot be made effective, the member's designated beneficiary may select a pla…

Sec. 839.303. MEMBER DEATH BENEFITS GENERALLY. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), if a contributing member dies, a lump-sum death benefit is payable from the retirement system in an amount computed at the rate of five percent of the amount in the member's individual accoun…

Sec. 839.304. RETURN OF CONTRIBUTIONS. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), if a member dies before retirement, the amount of the member's accumulated contributions is payable as a lump-sum death benefit. (b) The benefit provided by this section is payable to a person design…

Sec. 839.305. RETURN OF EXCESS CONTRIBUTIONS. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), if a person dies after retirement, a lump-sum death benefit is payable in an amount, if any, by which the retiree's contributions to the retirement system on the date of retirement exceed the …

Sec. 839.306. BENEFICIARY CAUSING DEATH OF MEMBER OR ANNUITANT. (a) Any benefits, funds, or account balances payable on the death of a member or annuitant may not be paid to a person convicted of or adjudicated as having caused that death but instead are payable as if the convict…

Sec. 839.401. ANNUITY INCREASE AFTER DEATH OR RETIREMENT. (a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (e), on the first day of each fiscal year, the retirement system shall increase the amounts of annuities that are payable by the system to a retiree, to the survivor of a retir…