Sec. 844.1022. SPECIAL ELIGIBILITY PROVISIONS FOR SERVICE RETIREMENT. (a) Subject to the consent of the board of trustees and effective for the period and on terms that the board approves, a subdivision may adopt a special service retirement eligibility provision that relates to a singular, identifiable event or action particular to the subdivision and that applies only to its members who satisfy the specific terms of the special eligibility provision.

(b) A special service retirement eligibility provision must bear a rational relationship to the operation, management, and function of the subdivision.

(c) A special service retirement eligibility provision may not be adopted or implemented under this section in a manner that has the effect of establishing a separate, ongoing retirement program for a branch, department, division, employee occupational group, or other separately identifiable component of the subdivision.

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 873 (H.B. 1587), Sec. 38, eff. January 1, 2008.