Sec. 659.044. AMOUNT. (a) Except as provided by Subsections (e) and (f) and Section 659.0445, the monthly amount of longevity pay is $20 for every two years of lifetime service credit.

(b) The amount increases when the 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 22nd, 24th, 26th, 28th, 30th, 32nd, 34th, 36th, 38th, 40th, and 42nd years of lifetime service credit are accrued.

(c) An increase is effective beginning with the month following the month in which the 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 22nd, 24th, 26th, 28th, 30th, 32nd, 34th, 36th, 38th, 40th, and 42nd years of lifetime service credit are accrued.

(d) An employee may not receive from the state as longevity pay more than the amount determined under Subsection (a) or (e), as applicable, regardless of the number of positions the employee holds or the number of hours the employee works each week.

(e) This subsection applies only to an employee of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department who is receiving less than the maximum amount of hazardous duty pay that the department may pay to the employee under Section 659.303. The employee's monthly amount of longevity pay is the sum of:

(1) $4 for each year of lifetime service credit, which may not include any period served in a hazardous duty position; and

(2) the lesser of:

(A) $4 for each year served in a hazardous duty position; or

(B) the difference between:

(i) $7 for each year served in a hazardous duty position; and

(ii) the amount paid by the department for each year served in a hazardous duty position.

(f) A state employee who retired from state employment before June 1, 2005, and who returned to state employment before September 1, 2005, is entitled to receive longevity pay. The monthly amount of longevity pay the employee is entitled to receive equals the amount of longevity pay the employee was entitled to receive immediately before September 1, 2005. A state employee who retired from state employment before June 1, 2005, and who returns to state employment on or after September 1, 2005, is not entitled to receive longevity pay.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1035, Sec. 35, eff. June 19, 1997, except as provided in Sec. 91; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1158, Sec. 32, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1158, Sec. 104, eff. June 15, 2001.

Reenacted and amended by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 899 (S.B. 1863), Sec. 13.03, eff. September 1, 2005.

Amended by:

Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1328 (S.B. 1519), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2007.

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 734 (H.B. 1549), Sec. 103, eff. September 1, 2015.