Tex. Gov't Code § 853.401 · Subchapter E. OPTIONAL INCREASES IN SERVICE CREDITS
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING UPDATED SERVICE CREDITS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) and Section 853.0015, the governing body of a participating municipality by ordinance may authorize the crediting in the retirement system of updated service credits for service performed for the municipality by members. Beginning January 1, 2022, a member must be a contributing employee of the municipality on the date prescribed by Section 853.402(e) to be eligible to receive an updated service credit authorized under this section. An updated service credit authorized under this section replaces any updated service credit or prior service credit previously authorized for part of the same service.
(b) A municipality may not authorize updated service credits for members who had less than 36 months of credited service on the date prescribed by Section 853.402(e).
(c) In adopting an ordinance under this section, a governing body shall specify the percentage of base updated service credits to be used in computing updated service credits for employees of the municipality and shall specify the date the updated service credits will take effect. The percentage adopted may be 50 percent, 75 percent, or 100 percent of a base updated service credit. The effective date must be January 1 of a year specified by the governing body. If the governing body of a municipality has specified a different percentage in an ordinance adopted under Section 853.404(a) and in effect on December 31, 1999, the percentage used in computing updated service credits for employees of that municipality remains in effect until changed or discontinued under Section 853.404.
(d) A governing body that adopts an ordinance under this section shall send it to the retirement system, and the system must receive it before the effective date of the updated service credits authorized in the ordinance.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981. Amended by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., 1st C.S., p. 221, ch. 18, Sec. 77, eff. Jan. 1, 1982. Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 63.401 and amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 57, Sec. 7, eff. Jan. 1, 1994; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 83, Sec. 3, eff. Dec. 31, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 991 (S.B. 1337), Sec. 8, eff. January 1, 2020.
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Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Government Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 853.0015EXCLUDED PRIOR SERVICE CREDIT.Printed as Section 853.0015
- Tex. Gov't Code § 853.402DETERMINATION OF UPDATED SERVICE CREDITS.Printed as Section 853.402(e)
- Tex. Gov't Code § 853.404ALLOWANCE OF UPDATED SERVICE CREDIT AND ANNUITY INCREASES.Printed as Section 853.404 | Section 853.404(a)
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Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Gov't Code § 853.401. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Government Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 853.402DETERMINATION OF UPDATED SERVICE CREDITS.Printed as Section 853.401 | Section 853.401(c) | Section 853.401, 853.404, or 853.601
- Tex. Gov't Code § 853.403APPROVAL OF ORDINANCE.Printed as Section 853.401
- Tex. Gov't Code § 853.404ALLOWANCE OF UPDATED SERVICE CREDIT AND ANNUITY INCREASES.Printed as Sections 853.401, 853.402, and 853.403
- Tex. Gov't Code § 853.601ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING UPDATED SERVICE CREDIT FOR TRANSFERRED SERVICE.Printed as Section 853.401 | Sections 853.401 and 853.402
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