Sec. 854.305. OPTIONAL DISABILITY RETIREMENT ANNUITY. (a) Instead of the standard disability retirement annuity payable under Section 854.304, a member retiring for disability may elect to receive an optional disability retirement annuity under this section.
(b) An optional disability retirement annuity is payable throughout the life of the retiree and is actuarially adjusted from the standard disability retirement annuity to its actuarial equivalent under the option selected under Subsection (c).
(c) An eligible person may select an optional annuity under Section 854.104(c).
(d) An option under Subsection (c) applies to both prior and current service annuities, except that prior service annuities are subject to reduction under Section 855.308(f).
(e) To select an optional disability retirement annuity, a member or retiree must make the selection and designate a beneficiary on a form prescribed by and filed with the board of trustees before the 31st day after the effective date of retirement.
(f) If a disability retirement annuity is discontinued under Section 854.308, any selection of an option that applies to the annuity becomes void.
(g) If a person who retires after August 31, 1997, elects a reduced retirement annuity that is payable until the death of the last to die of the retiree and a person designated under Subsection (e), and if the retiree survives the other person, the monthly payments to the retiree will be increased to the amounts that would have been payable if the retiree had elected to receive an annuity payable only during the retiree's life, and adjustments had been made for any applicable postretirement increases in that benefit. The increased benefit becomes payable the month after the month in which the person designated under Subsection (e) dies and continues until the retiree dies.
Added by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., 1st C.S., p. 226, ch. 18, Sec. 87, eff. Jan. 1, 1982. Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 64.3041 and amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 83, Sec. 12, eff. Dec. 31, 1999; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 121, Sec. 22, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.
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