Texas Government Code Title 8, Chapter 801 - State Pension Review Board
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
SUBCHAPTER B ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 801.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the State Pension Review Board. (1-a) "Governing body of a public retirement system" has the meaning assigned by Section...
- Texas Section 801.101 - Pension Review Board
The State Pension Review Board is an agency of the state. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981....
- Texas Section 801.102 - Composition Of Board
(a) The board is composed of seven members. (b) Appointments to the board shall be made without regard to the race, color, disability, sex, religion,...
- Texas Section 801.1021 - Conflict Provisions
(a) In this section, "Texas trade association" means a cooperative and voluntarily joined statewide association of business or professional competitors in this state designed to...
- Texas Section 801.103 - Members Appointed By Governor
(a) The governor shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the senate, seven members to the board. (b) The governor shall appoint to the...
- Texas Section 801.106 - Terms Of Office
Members of the board hold office for staggered terms of six years, with the terms of two or three members, as appropriate, expiring on January...
- Texas Section 801.1061 - Removal
(a) It is a ground for removal from the board that a member: (1) does not have at the time of taking office the qualifications...
- Texas Section 801.1062 - Training Program
(a) A person who is appointed to and qualifies for office as a member of the board may not vote, deliberate, or be counted as...
- Texas Section 801.107 - Sunset Provision
The State Pension Review Board is subject to Chapter 325 (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter, the board is...
- Texas Section 801.108 - Compensation; Expenses
A member of the board is entitled to reimbursement by the state for actual and necessary expenses incurred in performing the functions of the board....
- Texas Section 801.109 - Meetings
The board shall meet at least three times each year and may meet at other times at the call of the presiding officer or as...
- Texas Section 801.110 - Presiding Officers
The governor shall designate a member of the board as the presiding officer of the board to serve in that capacity at the will of...
- Texas Section 801.111 - Executive Director; Employees
(a) The board shall employ an executive director to be the executive head of the board and perform its administrative duties. (b) The executive director...
- Texas Section 801.1111 - Equal Employment Opportunity
(a) The executive director or the executive director's designee shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement that implements a program of equal employment opportunity...
- Texas Section 801.112 - Finances And Equipment
(a) The executive director may set staff salaries, within the limits of appropriated funds and subject to the approval of the board. (b) The board...
- Texas Section 801.113 - Fund
(a) The State Pension Review Board fund is created in the state treasury. Money in the fund may be appropriated only to assist in paying...
SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD
- Texas Section 801.114 - Qualifications And Standards Of Conduct
The executive director or the executive director's designee shall provide to members of the board and to board employees, as often as necessary, information regarding...
- Texas Section 801.201 - Rulemaking
(a) The board shall adopt rules for the conduct of its business. (b) For the purpose of performing its duties under Section 801.202(1) or (2),...
- Texas Section 801.2012 - Negotiated Rulemaking And Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures
(a) The board shall develop and implement a policy to encourage the use of: (1) negotiated rulemaking procedures under Chapter 2008 for the adoption of...
- Texas Section 801.202 - General Duties
The board shall: (1) conduct a continuing review of public retirement systems, compiling and comparing information about benefits, creditable service, financing, and administration of systems;...
- Texas Section 801.203 - Reports To Legislature And Governor
(a) The board shall present to the legislature and the governor, in November of each even-numbered year, a public report explaining the work and findings...
- Texas Section 801.204 - Inspection Of Records
In performing its functions, the board may inspect the books, records, or accounts of a public retirement system during business hours of the system. Acts...
- Texas Section 801.205 - Subpoena
(a) The board, if reasonably necessary in the course of performing a board function, may subpoena witnesses or books, records, or other documents. The presiding...
- Texas Section 801.206 - Public Access And Testimony
(a) The board shall prepare and maintain a written plan that describes how a person who does not speak English or who has a physical,...
- Texas Section 801.207 - Complaints
(a) The board shall maintain a file on each written complaint filed with the board. The file must include: (1) the name of the person...
- Texas Section 801.208 - Education And Training
As authorized by Section 801.113(e), the board may develop and conduct training sessions and other educational activities for trustees and administrators of public retirement systems....
- Texas Section 801.209 - Public Retirement System Reports And Information
(a) For each public retirement system, the board shall post on the board's Internet website, or on a publicly available website that is linked to...
- Texas Section 801.210 - Model Ethical Standards And Conflict-of-interest Policies
(a) The board shall develop and make reasonably accessible on the board's Internet website model ethical standards and model conflict-of-interest policies, including disclosure requirements, for...
- Texas Section 801.211 - Public Retirement System Educational Training Program
(a) The board shall develop and administer an educational training program for trustees and system administrators. (b) The curriculum of the educational training program must...
Last modified: September 28, 2016