The board may ask certain public retirement systems for actuarial reports or analyses, and those systems must respond within 21 days in regular session requests.
Sec. 802.305. REPORTS, ANALYSES, AND ACTUARIAL IMPACT STATEMENTS FOR CERTAIN BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS. (a) The board may request a state-financed public retirement system to provide the board with: (1) a report listing and totalling the actuarial effect of all public retirement bills and resolutions that have been presented in public hearings in either house of the legislature during the current legislative session and that affect the state-financed public retirement system; or (2) an analysis of the actuarial effect of all public retirement bills and resolutions that have been passed by at least one house of the legislature during the current legislative session and that affect the state-financed public retirement system, assuming that each bill and resolution becomes law. (b) A state-financed public retirement system that receives a request under Subsection (a) must provide the board with the requested report or analysis on or before the 21st day after the date of the request, if the request is made during a regular legislative session. If the state-financed public retirement system does not provide the board with the requested report or analysis within the 21-day period, the board may prepare the requested report or analysis. (c) If the board prepares a requested report or analysis under Subsection (b), the state-financed public retirement system may reimburse the board's costs incurred in preparing the requested report or analysis. (d) Even if a public retirement system prepares a required report or analysis under Subsection (b), the board may have a second actuary prepare a separate report or analysis. (e) On or before the 70th day before the last possible day of each regular session of the legislature, the board shall provide the presiding officer of the committee responsible for retirement legislation in each house of the legislature an actuarial impact statement listing and totalling for each state-financed public retirement system the actuarial effect of all public retirement bills and resolutions that have been presented in public hearings in either house of the legislature during that legislative session and that affect that state-financed public retirement system. (f) On or before the 30th day before the last possible day of each regular session of the legislature, the board shall provide the presiding officer of the committee responsible for retirement legislation in each house of the legislature an actuarial impact statement analyzing for each state-financed public retirement system the actuarial effect of all public retirement bills and resolutions that have been passed by at least one house of the legislature during that legislative session and that affect that state-financed public retirement system, assuming that each of the bills and resolutions becomes law. (g) The board also shall provide the statements required by Subsections (e) and (f) during a called legislative session. (h) The board shall adopt deadlines for the provision under this section of a report, analysis, or actuarial impact statement that relates to a bill or resolution introduced for consideration during a called legislative session. The deadlines must be designed to provide the most complete information practicable in a timely manner. (i) In this section: (1) "Public retirement bill or resolution" means a bill or resolution that proposes to change the amount or number of benefits or participation in benefits of a state-financed public retirement system or that proposes to change a fund liability of a state-financed public retirement system. (2) "State-financed public retirement system" means the Employees Retirement System of Texas, including the law enforcement and custodial officer supplemental retirement fund, or the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 624, Sec. 15, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.