Texas Government Code Title 8, Chapter 823 - Creditable Service

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 823.001 - Types Of Creditable Service
  The types of service creditable in the retirement system are: (1) prior service; (2) membership service; (3) military service; and (4) equivalent membership service. Acts...
• Texas Section 823.002 - Service Creditable In A Year
  (a) The board of trustees by rule shall determine how much service in any year is equivalent to one year of service credit, but in...
• Texas Section 823.003 - Benefits Based On Service Credit
  Except as otherwise provided under the optional retirement program, years of service on which the amount of a benefit is based consist of the number...
• Texas Section 823.004 - Computation Of And Payment For Credit
  (a) All credit for military service, out-of-state service, developmental leave, work experience in a career or technological field, and service transferred to the retirement system...
• Texas Section 823.005 - Acceptance Of Rollovers And Transfers From Other Plans
  Subject to rules adopted by the board of trustees, the retirement system shall accept an eligible rollover distribution or a direct transfer of funds from...

SUBCHAPTER C ESTABLISHMENT OF MEMBERSHIP SERVICE

• Texas Section 823.006 - Limits On Annual Contributions For Purchase Of Service Credit
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle, the retirement system may limit the purchase of service credit to the extent required by applicable limits on...
• Texas Section 823.201 - Current Membership Service
  (a) Membership service is credited in the retirement system for each year in which a member is an employee and for which the member renders...

SUBCHAPTER D ESTABLISHMENT OF MILITARY SERVICE

• Texas Section 823.203 - Membership Service For Optional Retirement Program
  A member may not establish service credit in the retirement system for any period when the member was participating in the optional retirement program under...
• Texas Section 823.301 - Creditable Military Service
  (a) Except as provided by Section 823.101(2), military service creditable in the retirement system is active federal duty in the armed forces of the United...
• Texas Section 823.302 - Military Service Credit
  (a) An eligible member may establish service credit in the retirement system for military service performed that is creditable as provided by Section 823.301. (b)...
• Texas Section 823.303 - Military Leave Credit
  A member who performs military service creditable in the retirement system but who does not establish credit for the service by making the deposits required...

SUBCHAPTER E ESTABLISHMENT OF EQUIVALENT MEMBERSHIP SERVICE

• Texas Section 823.304 - Userra Credit
  (a) A person eligible to establish USERRA credit is one who qualifies under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994, 38 U.S.C....
• Texas Section 823.401 - Out-of-state Service
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), an eligible member may establish equivalent membership service credit for employment with a public school system maintained wholly...
• Texas Section 823.402 - Developmental Leave
  (a) An eligible member may establish equivalent membership service credit for developmental leave that is creditable in the retirement system. (b) Developmental leave creditable in...
• Texas Section 823.403 - Credit For Accumulated Personal Or Sick Leave
  (a) A member who retires from an employer as defined by Section 821.001(7) based on service or a disability is entitled to membership service credit...
• Texas Section 823.404 - Work Experience By Career Or Technology Teacher
  (a) An eligible member may establish equivalent membership service credit for one or two years of work experience for which the member is entitled to...

SUBCHAPTER F REINSTATEMENT OF SERVICE CREDIT

• Texas Section 823.406 - Credit Purchase Option For Certain Service
  (a) A member may establish membership service credit under this section only for service performed during a 90-day waiting period to become a member after...
• Texas Section 823.501 - Credit Canceled By Membership Termination
  (a) An eligible person who has terminated membership in the retirement system by withdrawal of contributions or absence from service may reinstate in the system...

Last modified: September 28, 2016