(a) Payment shall be from the funds of the agency, commission, board or department from which the officer or employee retired, shall be limited to the same amount allowed active employees under current group life and health insurance programs of the agency, commission, board or department, and shall be made in accordance with rules and regulations to be established no later than September 1, 1973, by the Central Education Agency, the Texas Rehabilitation Commission, and the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System for its respective retirees and no later than September 1, 1975, by the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, the Texas Youth Commission, and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas for their retired employees who accepted retirement under the Teacher Retirement System of Texas pursuant to Chapter 3, Texas Education Code.

(b) The agency, commission, board and department shall certify to the state comptroller of public accounts each month the amount required each month to pay the insurance premiums of the said retirees, and the State of Texas shall pay the amount so ascertained each month, beginning September 1, 1973, to the Central Education Agency, the Texas Rehabilitation Commission, and the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System, and beginning September 1, 1975, to the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and the Texas Youth Commission.

Added by Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 600, ch. 254, Sec. 1, eff. June 11, 1973. Amended by Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1027, ch. 394, Sec. 1, eff. June 19, 1975.

Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 181, ch. 44, art. 3, Sec. 1, eff. April 26, 1983; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1423, Sec. 11.13, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.