Texas Government Code Title 8, Chapter 843 - Creditable Service

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 843.001 - Types Of Creditable Service
  The types of service creditable as credited service in the retirement system are prior service, current service, and optional service. A member may not be...
• Texas Section 843.002 - Benefit Eligibility And Amount
  A member's eligibility to receive a benefit is based on the member's amount of credited service and attained age on the effective date of retirement....
• Texas Section 843.003 - Authorization To Reestablish Service Credit Previously Forfeited
  (a) An eligible member who has withdrawn contributions from the retirement system may reestablish the forfeited service credit in the system if the current service...
• Texas Section 843.0031 - Option To Pay Lump-sum Amount
  (a) Repealed by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 300, Sec. 38(1), eff. January 1, 2010. (b) A member who has withdrawn accumulated contributions from...

SUBCHAPTER B ESTABLISHMENT OF PRIOR SERVICE GENERALLY

• Texas Section 843.004 - Composition Of Service Credit
  Service credit consists of allocated prior service credit, current service credit, and multiple matching credit as authorized by a participating subdivision. Added by Acts 2001,...
• Texas Section 843.101 - Creditable Prior Service
  Prior service creditable in the retirement system is service performed as an employee of a participating subdivision before the date the subdivision's participation in the...
• Texas Section 843.102 - Eligibility For Prior Service Credit
  (a) A member is eligible to receive service credit in the retirement system for prior service if the member became a member as an employee...
• Texas Section 843.104 - Certification Of Service And Average Compensation
  (a) A member eligible to receive prior service credit may claim the credit by filing a detailed statement of the service with the subdivision for...

SUBCHAPTER C OPTIONAL PRIOR SERVICE

• Texas Section 843.105 - Determination Of Maximum And Allocated Prior Service Credit
  (a) After receiving a certification of prior service and average prior service compensation under Section 843.104, the retirement system shall credit to the member the...

SUBCHAPTER E ESTABLISHMENT OF CURRENT SERVICE

• Texas Section 843.201 - Service Credit For Certain Public Employment
  In accordance with rules adopted by the board of trustees, the governing body of a participating subdivision by order may authorize the establishment of credited...
• Texas Section 843.401 - Current Service Generally
  Current service is service performed by an employee of a participating subdivision while a member of the retirement system and credited as provided under this...

SUBCHAPTER F OPTIONAL CREDITED SERVICE

• Texas Section 843.402 - Current Service Credit And Multiple Matching Credit
  (a) Current service credit is a monetary amount credited by a subdivision to be computed at a member's effective retirement date and used in determining...
• Texas Section 843.501 - Credited Service For Legislative Service
  A member may establish credited service in the retirement system for service performed as a member of the legislature. A member claiming credited service for...
• Texas Section 843.502 - Credited Service For Qualified Military Service
  (a) In this section: (1) "Qualified military service" means service in the uniformed services, as that term is defined in the Uniformed Services Employment and...
• Texas Section 843.503 - Credited Service For Service With Subdivision Predecessor
  The governing body of a participating subdivision may, with the consent of and on terms approved by the board of trustees, authorize the establishment of...
• Texas Section 843.504 - No Double Crediting Of Service
  Except as provided by Chapter 803, only one month of credited service may be established in the retirement system for any calendar month for all...
• Texas Section 843.505 - Credited Service Previously Eligible For Recognition Under Proportionate Retirement Program
  The board of trustees by rule may authorize the retirement system, on application by a member and for the sole purpose of determining eligibility for...

Last modified: September 28, 2016