Tex. Gov't Code § 854.108 · Subchapter B. SERVICE RETIREMENT BENEFITS
DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARY AFTER RETIREMENT UNDER JOINT AND SURVIVOR ANNUITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This section applies only to a retiree who:
(1) at the time of retirement selected an optional annuity providing that, after the retiree's death, payments would be made to a beneficiary throughout the remaining life of the beneficiary and the beneficiary predeceases the retiree;
(2) marries after the date of the person's retirement; and
(3) has not previously replaced an annuity under this section.
(b) A retiree described by Subsection (a) may replace an annuity by selecting an optional annuity under Section 854.104(c)(1), (2), or (5) and designating the person's spouse as beneficiary in the same manner as an annuity selection and designation of beneficiary may be made before retirement.
(c) The selection under Subsection (b) must be filed with the retirement system before the first anniversary of the date of the marriage unless the postretirement marriage occurred before January 1, 2002, in which case the selection must be filed with the retirement system before January 1, 2003.
(d) The retirement system shall adjust the monthly payments of the annuity under the option selected to an actuarial equivalent amount of the annuity being paid immediately before the change in benefit option and beneficiary selection.
(e) The selection of an optional annuity and designation of a beneficiary under this section is not effective if the retiree or beneficiary dies before the date the change is to take effect.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 121, Sec. 18, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.
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