A participating municipality’s governing body may adopt an ordinance that gives certain eligible members updated service credit and adjusts that credit for prior service and later credits from a previous employer.
Sec. 853.601. ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING UPDATED SERVICE CREDIT FOR TRANSFERRED SERVICE. (a) The governing body of a participating municipality in ordinances authorizing updated service credits under Section 853.401 may provide that those members who are eligible for such credits on the basis of service with the granting municipality, who have unforfeited credit for prior service or current service with another participating municipality or municipalities by reason of previous employment, and who are contributing members on the date prescribed by Section 853.402(e), shall be credited in the retirement system with updated service credit calculated in the manner prescribed by Sections 853.401 and 853.402, except that in determining the base updated service credit of the member under Section 853.402(c)(1), all unforfeited credited service performed by the member by reason of previous employment in other participating municipalities prior to the date prescribed by Section 853.402(e) shall be treated as if performed in the service of the municipality adopting the ordinance, and that amount shall be reduced by an amount equal to the sum of: (1) 2 times the amount credited to the member's individual account on the date prescribed in Section 853.402(e), which any participating municipality has undertaken to match on a 1 to 1 ratio; plus (2) 2.5 times the amount credited to the member's individual account, subject to a 1.5 to 1 matching ratio by any participating municipality; plus (3) 3 times the amount credited to the member's individual account, subject to a 2 to 1 matching ratio by any participating municipality; and plus (4) the sum of all updated service credits, prior service credits, special prior service credits, and antecedent service credits allowed to the member by any other participating municipality by which the member was previously employed and to which the member is entitled. (b) If the member is granted an updated service credit by a previously employing municipality on or after the granting of an updated service credit under Subsection (a), the updated service credit granted under Subsection (a) shall be reduced by the amount of increase in credits resulting from the granting of updated service credits by the previous employer. Added by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 2977, ch. 512, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 29, 1983. Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 63.601 and amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by: Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1208 (S.B. 350), Sec. 11, eff. June 17, 2011. Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 991 (S.B. 1337), Sec. 10, eff. January 1, 2020.