HB4319 - 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.

  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.