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2 Document(s) [ Subject: Retire/Rehire ]
Committee: | House Pensions and Investments | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Subjects: | Employees Retirement System of Texas | Houston Municipal Employees Pension System | Peace officers | Pension liabilities | Prescription drug costs | Prescription drugs | Public retirement systems | Retire/Rehire | Teacher Retirement System of Texas | Texas Municipal Retirement System | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.80 P387 | |
Session: | 80th R.S. (2007) | |
Online version: | View report [64 pages File size: 12,741 kb] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Evaluate the possibility of requiring the state and employee contribution rate to meet the annually required contribution for the statewide retirement funds each biennium in order to prevent unfunded liabilities. | |
2. | Explore options for funding other post-employment benefits, and examine strategies employed by other governmental entities in addressing these obligations. | |
3. | Study the impact of actuaries on public pension plans, and evaluate the need for legislation to ensure appropriate actuarial assumptions, actuarial audits or regulation of actuaries contracting with state pension plans. | |
4. | Analyze the impact of allowing a retiree to return to work in the Texas Municipal Retirement System. | |
5. | Assess the representational proportion of each of the stakeholder groups, eligibility requirements, qualifications, and selection and election procedures of the board of trustees of the retirement systems. | |
6. | Examine eligibility criteria for membership and possible inclusion of additional employees in the Law Enforcement and Custodial Officers Supplemental Retirement Fund (LECOSRF). Evaluate the effect of diversion of funds from the auto registration fee on the unfunded liability of the LECOSRF, and explore the possibility of creating a similar supplemental retirement program as part of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas for those members performing law enforcement duties. | |
7. | Evaluate and make recommendations, if necessary, regarding state contracts with pharmacy benefit managers. Assess the feasibility of combining prescription drug programs of state health insurance programs. All recommendations should take into consideration any budgetary impacts. (Joint Interim Charge with the House Committee on Government Reform.) | |
8. | Examine the operation of the Houston Municipal Employees Pension System, its Board of Trustees and staff. (Joint Interim Charge with the House Committee on Urban Affairs.) | |
9. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. | |
Committee: | House Return-to-Work, House Joint | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Joint House Committee on Return-to-Work, House Appropriations Subcommittee, House Committee on Pensions and Investments, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2002 : a report to the House of Representatives, 78th Texas Legislature | |
Subjects: | Public retirement systems | Retire/Rehire | State employees | Teacher retirement | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.77 r314 | |
Session: | 77th R.S. (2001) | |
Online version: | View report [23 pages File size: 907 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | The Joint House Committee on "Return-to-Work" will examine the cost impacts on the state budget and the pension funds of allowing state and certain school district employees to "return-to-work" while receiving retirement benefits. The committee will consider policy issues raised by such action, including differences in current law between state employees and teachers. Specifically consider the practice of "retiring-in-place." |
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