Texas Insurance Code - Not Codified - Article 3.51-7. Payments Of Additional Death Benefits For Retired Appointed Officers And Employees Of The Teacher Retirement System Of Texas, And The Texas Central Education Agency, And The Texas Schools For The Blind And Visually Impaired And For The Deaf

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Art. 3.51-7. PAYMENTS OF ADDITIONAL DEATH BENEFITS FOR 
RETIRED APPOINTED OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE TEACHER RETIREMENT 
SYSTEM OF TEXAS, AND THE TEXAS CENTRAL EDUCATION AGENCY, AND THE 
TEXAS SCHOOLS FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND FOR THE 
DEAF.  (a) This article shall apply only to persons retired as 
annuitants under the provisions of the Teacher Retirement System of 
Texas who were immediately prior to retirement appointed officers 
or employees of the Central Education Agency, the Teacher 
Retirement System of Texas, the Texas School for the Blind and 
Visually Impaired, or for the Texas School for the Deaf.
	(b)  There shall be paid from the funds of the Central 
Education Agency, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, the Texas 
School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, or for the Texas School 
for the Deaf an additional lump-sum death benefit in such amount as, 
when added to any lump-sum death benefit payable under the 
provisions of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, shall equal 
$5,000 upon satisfactory proof of the death, occurring on or after 
September 1, 1977, of any person defined in Part (a) of this 
article.  Each such additional lump-sum death benefit shall be paid 
from the funds of the agency or school from which such person 
retired.
	(c)  Such benefit shall be paid as provided by the laws of 
descent and distribution unless the retiree has directed in writing 
that it be paid otherwise.
	(d)  Such payment shall be made in accordance with rules and 
regulations established by the Central Education Agency, the 
Teacher Retirement System of Texas, the Texas School for the Blind 
and Visually Impaired, or for the Texas School for the Deaf, and 
each shall certify to the Comptroller of Public Accounts of Texas 
each month the amounts of all such payments made in the preceding 
month.
	(e)  There are hereby authorized to be paid out of the funds 
of the Central Education Agency, the Teacher Retirement System of 
Texas, the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, or for 
the Texas School for the Deaf the sums necessary to pay such 
additional lump-sum death benefits.

Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 1272, ch. 494, Sec. 1, eff. June 
15, 1977.

Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 247, Sec. 17, eff. June 14, 
1989;  Subsec. (d) amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1423, Sec. 
11.15, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

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