Tex. Gov't Code § 842.109 · Subchapter B. MEMBERSHIP
TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person terminates membership in the retirement system by:
(1) retirement from all participating subdivisions with which the person has service credit; or
(2) withdrawal of all of the person's accumulated contributions.
(b) Unless terminated under Subsection (a), a person's membership in the retirement system terminates on the earlier of the date of the person's death or the last day of the month ending before the person's required beginning date determined in accordance with Section 841.010.
(c) A member of the retirement system who leaves employment with a participating subdivision to perform and does perform qualified military service in the uniformed services, as that term is defined in the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (38 U.S.C. Section 4301 et seq.), that meets the requirements of that Act is not absent from service and continues to accumulate credited service with that subdivision if:
(1) the person applies for reemployment with the same subdivision not later than the 90th day after the date the person is discharged from military service under honorable conditions or released from hospitalization continuing after being discharged under honorable conditions for a period of not more than two years; and
(2) the person is reemployed by the same participating subdivision.
(d) Repealed by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 873, Sec. 92(4), eff. January 1, 2008.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981. Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 52.109 by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 460, Sec. 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 427, Sec. 9, eff. Dec. 31, 1999; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 122, Sec. 8, eff. Dec. 31, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 506 (H.B. 633), Sec. 11, eff. January 1, 2006.
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 873 (H.B. 1587), Sec. 12, eff. January 1, 2008.
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 873 (H.B. 1587), Sec. 92(4), eff. January 1, 2008.
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