TRS credit for Texas National Guard state active duty

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89R11156 JCG-D

By: Toth
H.B. No. 4319

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the establishment of service credit in the Teacher

Retirement System of Texas for certain military service by members

of the Texas National Guard.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 823.301(a), Government Code, is amended

to read as follows:

(a) Military [ Except as provided by Section 823.101(2),

military ] service creditable in the retirement system is :

(1) active federal duty in the armed forces of the

United States, other than as a student at a service academy, that

was performed:

(A) [ (1) ] as a direct result of being inducted or

of first enlisting for duty on a date when the federal government

was actively inducting persons into the armed forces under federal

draft laws;

(B) [ (2) ] as a reservist or member of the

national guard who was ordered to duty under the authority of

federal law;

(C) [ (3) ] during a time when the federal

government was actively inducting persons into the armed forces

under federal draft laws; or

(D) [ (4) ] as a result of voluntarily entering on

active duty ; or

(2) state active duty in the Texas National Guard, as

those terms are defined by Section 437.001 .

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.