Title GV, Government Code

Sec. 844.0041. OPTIONAL RETIREMENT ANNUITIES. (a) Instead of the standard retirement annuity payable under Section 844.004, a retiring member may receive an optional retirement annuity under this section or an optional retirement annuity in another form authorized by the board of…

Sec. 844.0042. AUTHORITY TO PAY BENEFITS UNDER ALTERNATE FORMS. (a) The board of trustees may authorize the payment of the benefit that is due a recipient to be made as a lump sum or in another alternate form that is actuarially equivalent to the benefit that would otherwise be p…

Sec. 844.005. WHEN ANNUITY IS PAYABLE; CHANGES BEFORE FIRST PAYMENT. (a) A retiree may revoke an application for retirement, change the retiree's choice of retirement annuity payment plans, or change the designation of beneficiary after the retiree's effective date of retirement …

Sec. 844.006. CHANGE OF BENEFICIARY OR DIVISION OF BENEFIT FOR CERTAIN PERSONS RECEIVING MONTHLY BENEFITS. (a) A retiree who is receiving payments under a retirement annuity computed on the life of the retiree only may revoke any existing selection and designation of beneficiary …

Sec. 844.007. INTEREST CREDIT FOR OTHER THAN DECEMBER RETIREMENTS. A member who retires with an effective retirement date other than December 31 will be credited interest on the beginning balance in the member's individual account from January 1 of the year of retirement to the e…

Sec. 844.008. LIMITATION ON PAYMENT OF BENEFITS. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle, the benefit payable to a retiree of the retirement system may not exceed the maximum benefit permitted under Section 415(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as adjusted …

Sec. 844.009. PARTIAL LUMP-SUM DISTRIBUTION ON SERVICE RETIREMENT. (a) With the consent of the board of trustees, the governing body of a subdivision may authorize partial lump-sum distributions under this section. (b) A member who is eligible and applies for service retirement m…

Sec. 844.010. CERTAIN BENEFICIARY DESIGNATIONS. (a) A beneficiary designation that names a former spouse as beneficiary is invalid for purposes of this subtitle unless the designation: (1) is made or confirmed in writing after the date of divorce; or (2) was made by a retiree who…

Sec. 844.101. APPLICATION FOR SERVICE RETIREMENT ANNUITY. To receive a retirement annuity for service, an eligible member must apply by filing a valid application with the retirement system. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981. Renumbered from Verno…

Sec. 844.102. SYSTEMWIDE ELIGIBILITY FOR SERVICE RETIREMENT ANNUITY. (a) A member is eligible to apply for and receive a service retirement annuity if the member: (1) is at least 60 years old and has at least 10 years of credited service in the retirement system; (2) has at least…

Sec. 844.1021. OPTIONAL ELIGIBILITY PROVISIONS FOR SERVICE RETIREMENT. (a) In accordance with this subtitle, a subdivision may adopt any optional service retirement eligibility provision described by this section or authorized by the board of trustees. (b) A subdivision may not r…

Sec. 844.1022. SPECIAL ELIGIBILITY PROVISIONS FOR SERVICE RETIREMENT. (a) Subject to the consent of the board of trustees and effective for the period and on terms that the board approves, a subdivision may adopt a special service retirement eligibility provision that relates to …

Sec. 844.208. OPTIONAL INCREASE IN RETIREMENT ANNUITIES. (a) The governing body of a participating subdivision, from time to time but not more frequently than once in each 12-month period, may provide for increased annuities to be paid to retirees and beneficiaries of deceased re…

Sec. 844.209. ALTERNATIVE OPTIONAL INCREASE IN RETIREMENT ANNUITIES. (a) The governing body of a participating subdivision, from time to time but not more frequently than once in each 12-month period, may provide for increased annuities to be paid to retirees and beneficiaries of…

Sec. 844.301. APPLICATION FOR DISABILITY RETIREMENT. (a) A member may apply for disability retirement by filing a valid application for retirement with the retirement system. (b) An applicant must provide medical and other pertinent information for evaluation by the medical board…

Sec. 844.3011. ANNUITY PAYABLE ON DISABILITY RETIREMENT. Except for eligibility requirements and as otherwise provided by this subtitle, a retirement annuity payable on the disability retirement of a member is equal in amount and equivalent in all respects under this subtitle to …

Sec. 844.302. ELIGIBILITY FOR DISABILITY RETIREMENT ANNUITY. (a) A member who is not vested for service retirement beginning on or before the date the member attains age 60 and who has applied for disability retirement is eligible to receive a disability retirement annuity if the…

Sec. 844.303. CERTIFICATION OF DISABILITY. (a) Except as provided by Section 844.302(c) and Subsection (c) of this section, as soon as practicable after an application for disability retirement is filed, the medical board shall evaluate the medical and other pertinent information…

Sec. 844.3051. DISABILITY RETIREMENT CONSIDERED SERVICE RETIREMENT. (a) The retirement annuity of a disability retiree may not be terminated under this subchapter after the earlier of: (1) the date a disability retiree attains age 60; or (2) the date the disability retiree would …

Sec. 844.306. MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF DISABILITY RETIREE. (a) Until the date a disability retirement is considered a service retirement under Section 844.3051, once each year during the first five years after a person retires for disability, and once in each three-year period afte…

Sec. 844.307. CANCELLATION OF DISABILITY RETIREMENT. (a) If the medical board finds that a disability retiree has experienced medical improvement to the extent that the retiree is no longer mentally or physically incapacitated, it shall certify its findings and submit them to the…

Sec. 844.309. ADJUSTMENTS AT ANNUITY TERMINATION. (a) If a disability retirement is canceled and the retirement annuity terminated under this subchapter, the person automatically resumes membership in the retirement system and the retirement system shall transfer from the subdivi…

Sec. 844.401. RETURN OF ACCUMULATED CONTRIBUTIONS. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), if a member dies before retirement, a lump-sum death benefit is payable from the employees saving fund in the amount of: (1) the decedent's accumulated contributions; plus (2) interest co…

Sec. 844.402. RETURN OF EXCESS CONTRIBUTIONS. (a) After the death of a member or former member and after the final payment has been made under any service, disability, or survivor annuity, a lump-sum death benefit is payable in an amount, if any, by which the amount in the person…

Sec. 844.404. PERSON CAUSING DEATH OF MEMBER OR ANNUITANT. (a) A benefit, including any optional group term life benefit, payable on the death of a member or annuitant may not be paid to a person convicted of causing that death but instead is payable to a person who would be enti…

Sec. 844.405. TRUST AS BENEFICIARY. (a) Except as limited by Subsection (b), a member or retiree may designate a trust as beneficiary for the payment of benefits from the retirement system or may designate multiple trusts as beneficiaries for the payment of benefits from the syst…

Sec. 844.406. SIMULTANEOUS DEATH OF MEMBER AND BENEFICIARY. When a member or retiree and the spouse or beneficiary of the member or retiree have died within a period of less than 120 hours of each other, the member or retiree is considered to have survived the spouse or beneficia…

Sec. 844.407. SURVIVOR ANNUITY. (a) In this section "eligible member" means a member who has four or more years of credited service with one or more subdivisions that are participating in the retirement system. (b) Instead of any other benefit allowed under this subtitle other th…

Sec. 844.408. NO SURVIVING SPOUSE, EXECUTOR, OR ADMINISTRATOR. (a) In this section "heirs" has the meaning assigned by Chapter 22, Estates Code, except that the term excludes any person who has filed a proper disclaimer or renunciation with the retirement system. (b) If the admin…

Sec. 844.501. COVERAGE IN OPTIONAL GROUP TERM LIFE PROGRAM. (a) An employee of a participating subdivision is included within the coverage of the optional group term life program on that day in the first month in which: (1) the employing subdivision is participating in the progra…

Sec. 844.502. EXTENDED OPTIONAL GROUP TERM LIFE COVERAGE. (a) A member included in the coverage of the optional group term life program who fails to earn compensation in a month for service to a subdivision participating in the program may be eligible to receive extended coverage…

Sec. 844.503. MEMBER OPTIONAL GROUP TERM LIFE. (a) In this section, the terms "regular rate of pay," "hours worked," "salary basis," and "regular salary" have meanings that are consistent with the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.). (b) If a person i…

Sec. 844.504. RETIREE OPTIONAL GROUP TERM LIFE BENEFIT. If a retiree dies who was receiving a retirement annuity based on service for a subdivision that has elected to provide, and continues to provide, postretirement optional group term life coverage, a lump-sum death benefit is…

Sec. 844.505. BENEFICIARY OF OPTIONAL GROUP TERM LIFE BENEFIT. (a) Unless a member has directed otherwise on a form prescribed by the board of trustees and filed with the retirement system: (1) an optional group term life benefit under Section 844.503 is payable to the person ent…

Sec. 844.601. PLAN FUNDING BY NON-ADOPTING COUNTY. (a) This section applies only to a county that began participation in the retirement system before January 1, 1992, and has not adopted the provisions of Subchapter H. (b) Except as provided by Subsections (c) and (d), the county…

Sec. 844.701. APPLICABILITY. Except for a county described by Section 844.601, this subchapter applies to each subdivision that participates in the retirement system. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 460, Sec. 21, eff. Jan. 1, 1992. Amended by: Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 3…

Sec. 844.702. MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS. (a) The governing body of the subdivision may designate the rate of member contributions for employees of the subdivision to take effect beginning on the effective date of adoption of the plan provisions of this subchapter. The subdivision may …

Sec. 844.703. SUBDIVISION CONTRIBUTIONS. (a) Each participating subdivision adopting the plan provisions of this subchapter shall pay to the subdivision accumulation fund as its normal contribution an amount equal to a percentage of the compensation of members employed by the sub…

Sec. 844.704. BENEFITS. (a) The governing body of a subdivision shall select a percentage for determining multiple matching credits of zero or any percentage that is a multiple of five percent and that does not exceed 150 percent. The governing body may later increase the percent…