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Retirement

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GA-0018
Greg Abbott

Former teachers who accept temporary employment with third-party contractors who provide educational services to school districts do not forfeit retirement benefits

GA-0221
Greg Abbott

Retirement systems, a retired City of Houston employee may not receive benefits from multiple retirement systems for the same service|Constitutional prohibition on a person receiving Benefits from multiple retirement systems for the same service would preclude a retired City of Houston employee from receiving a pension from the Houston Municipal Employee Pension System as well as a bene|System of Retirement Benefits|Common understanding, court generally interprets words of constitution in accordance with

GA-0272
Greg Abbott

Office of Fire Fighters' Pension Commissioner, authority to charge fee to participating departments in retirement system|Office of the Fire Fighters' Pension Commissioner, authority to charge fee to participating departments in retirement system

GA-0300
Greg Abbott

Accumulated vacation time, paid as salary under an employment contract, is not creditable compensation for purposes of determining Teacher Retirement System benefits|Accumulated vacation time, paid as salary under an employment contract, is not creditable compensation for purposes of determining benefits

GA-0633
Greg Abbott

Affiliate|Benefit|Company|Qualified 403(b) investment products, whether an educational institution violates article 6228a-5, section 9(a)(4)–(7) by contracting with a third-party administrator that is affiliated with a company selling is a fact question

GA-0641
Greg Abbott

Proper formula under section 21.402, Education\r\nCode, for determining the required contributions by a school district to the Teacher Retirement System for compensation that exceeds the statutory minimum|Notwithstanding

GA-0677
Greg Abbott

Texas A&M University System, retiree participating in group benefits program is not eligible to also participate in Employees Retirement System group benefits program as active employee, but individual may elect to participate either as retiree or as active employee|Retiree who participates in Texas A&M University System group benefit program, but is now an active state employee, is not eligible to also participate in Employees Retirement System group benefits program, but individual may elect to participate either as retiree or as active employee

GA-0746
Greg Abbott

One-time payment to annuitants of Teacher Retirement System and Employees Retirement System grants "extra compensation" in violation of sections 44 and 53 of article III, Texas Constitution|Extra compensation

DM-0154
Dan Morales

Service credit, statute prohibiting disabled members of Teacher Retirement System over 60 years of age from curing disability and earning additional credit preempted by federal age discrimination statute

DM-0184
Dan Morales

Investment brokerage service, retirement systems must make good faith effort to assist disadvantaged businesses in obtaining at least ten percent of value of contracts awarded for

DM-0193
Dan Morales

Supplemental optional benefits programs, Employees Retirement System of Texas' duty to designate and regulate programs and approve particular vendors|Supplemental optional benefits programs, System's duty to designate and regulate programs and approve particular vendors

DM-0265
Dan Morales

Distribution of extra interest to annuitants by Texas County and District Retirement System does not violate constitutional prohibition against grants of public funds|Distribution of extra interest to annuitants does not violate constitutional prohibition against grants of public funds|Distribution of extra interest to annuitants by Texas County and Retirement System does not violate constitutional prohibition against grants of public funds

DM-0271
Dan Morales

Optional retirement program for faculty members, authority of governing body of University of Texas to limit number of vendors offering products to program participants|Optional retirement program for faculty members, authority of governing body of University of Texas to structure program|University optional retirement program for faculty members, authority of governing body to limit number of vendors offering products to program participants|University optional retirement program for faculty members, authority of governing body to structure program

DM-0275
Dan Morales

Service credit transferred from Teacher Retirement System to Employee Retirement System, TRS responsible for paying portion of early retirement incentive

DM-0340
Dan Morales

Executive session to review medical records, authority of retirement system board of trustees acting as medical board or committee to hold|Medical records, authority of retirement system board of trustees sitting as medical board or committee to hold executive session for purpose of reviewing

DM-0417
Dan Morales

Driver education, payment public school teacher receives supplemental to regular salary for teaching is not included in calculation of teacher's retirement benefit|Driver education teacher in public school who receives payment supplemental to regular salary, whether state may exclude from calculation of teacher's retirement benefit|Driver education, System may not include in calculation of teacher's retirement benefit payment teacher receives supplemental to regular salary for teaching|Teacher's retirement benefit, calculation of may not include supplement to teacher's regular salary for teaching driver education

JC-0027
John Cornyn

Temporary service retirement option for certain state employees whose positions are eliminated because of privatization or other reductions in workforce|Post-enactment statement by legislature or in sponsor's statement about bill, legislative intent is not found in

JC-0043
John Cornyn

Retirement systems, delegation of investment authority by and securities authorized for investment by Board of Trustees of Teacher Retirement System of Texas|Teacher Retirement System, delegation of investment authority by and securities authorized for investment by board of trustees|Delegation of investment authority by and securities authorized for investment by Board of Trustees of Teacher Retirement System of Texas|Delegation of investment authority by and securities authorized for investment by board of trustees|Securities

JC-0066
John Cornyn

City's errors in reporting members' contributions or enrollment dates, four-year time limit on correcting|City's errors in reporting members' contributions or enrollment dates to Municipal Retirement System, four-year time limit on correcting

JC-0165
John Cornyn

Deferred compensation|Early exit|Early exit plan for school district employees is authorized by sections 11.163 and 45.105 of the Education Code|Early exit plan for school district employees, whereby certain employees receive payments from the district in return for leaving employment and other agreements, is not an unconstitutional gratuity if employees provide consideration to the district for p|Early exit plan for school district employees is not "deferred compensation plan" within the meaning of section 609 of the Government Code

JC-0197
John Cornyn

Deferred compensation plan, water district directors may not participate in|Deferred compensation plan, district directors may not participate in|Retirement system, district directors may not participate in|Water district directors may not participate in water district's public retirement system or deferred compensation plan|Heading may neither limit nor expand plain text of statute

JC-0297
John Cornyn

County retirees' health insurance premiums, county may not pay unless the retirement plan is authorized by state law and is consistent with article III, section 53 of the Texas Constitution|County retirees' health insurance premiums, county may not agree to pay unless authorized by state law and consistent with article III, section 53 of the Texas Constitution|County retirees' health insurance premiums, county may not agree to pay if payment would constitute unbargained-for, retroactive compensation|Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 ("COBRA") does not require or authorize a county to pay any portion of a retiree's health insurance premiums or to make health insurance coverage available beyond COBRA's mandatory time periods for co

JC-0310
John Cornyn

Retirement benefit under section 143.073(b) of the Local Government Code for fire fighters and police officers injured or becoming ill in the line of duty is available only if pension fund is exclusively for fire fighters or police officers rather than al|Benefit under section 143.073(b) of the Local Government Code for fire fighters and police officers injured or becoming ill in the line of duty is available only if pension fund is exclusively for fire fighters or police officers, not if fund covers all c

JC-0431
John Cornyn

Deferred compensation program involving transfer of shares in mutual fund, authority of state university system to offer

JC-0533
John Cornyn

Visiting judges, provisions increasing retirement benefits for apply only to persons retiring after effective date|Present tense indicates prospective rather than retroactive operation of provision|Prospective operation; presumption of

JM-1142
Jim Mattox

Retirement plan, whether district may create|Appraisal district, whether local retirement plan may be created by

JM-1231
Jim Mattox

Securities lending program, Employees Retirement System may not operate in-house but may contract with additional custodian to engage in