Tex. Gov't Code § 844.402 · Subchapter E. DEATH BENEFITS
RETURN OF EXCESS CONTRIBUTIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(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's individual account in the employees saving fund on which the annuity was computed exceeds the amount of annuity payments made.
(b) The benefit provided by this section is payable to the person entitled to receive the final monthly payment of the annuity. If that person is deceased, the benefit provided by this section is payable to the person's beneficiary or, if no surviving beneficiary exists, to the person's spouse or, if no surviving spouse exists, to the person's estate.
(c) The benefit provided by this section is payable from the subdivision accumulation fund.
(d) For plans terminated under Subchapter A-1, Chapter 842, the benefit provided by this section is payable from the closed subdivision annuity reserve fund.
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. 54.402 by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 122, Sec. 38, eff. Dec. 31, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 303 (S.B. 463), Sec. 4, eff. June 1, 2015.
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