Relating to the purchase of service credit by certain members of the Employees Retirement System of Texas, the official text

H.B. No. 2434

AN ACT

relating to the purchase of service credit by certain members of the

Employees Retirement System of Texas.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 813.514, Government Code, is amended by

amending Subsection (a-1) and adding Subsections (f) and (g) to

read as follows:

(a-1) A member may establish service credit under this

section in the employee class only for service performed during a

90-day waiting period to become a member after beginning employment

or holding office. The member may establish service credit for each

month of any 90-day waiting period in which the member performed

service, regardless of whether the member made a contribution

during the 90-day waiting period for which the member establishes

service credit.

(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle,

if a member purchases service credit under this section for a month

that occurred before the member's most recent date of hiring, the

retirement system shall consider for purposes of this subtitle the

member's date of hiring to be the first day of the month of the

earliest month for which service credit is purchased under this

section.

(g) The retirement system shall compute the amount of the

deposit required by this section in a manner that does not result in

an actuarial loss to the retirement system.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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President of the Senate
Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 2434 was passed by the House on May

12, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 1, 1 present, not

voting.

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Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 2434 was passed by the Senate on May

23, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: _____________________

Date

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Governor