HB5632 • 2025

Relating to designation of a beneficiary by a retiree of the Employees Retirement System of Texas.

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Sponsor: Guillen
Last action: 2025-05-19
Official status: 05/19/2025 S Referred to Finance
Effective date: Not listed

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Relating to designation of a beneficiary by a retiree of the Employees Retirement System of Texas.

What This Bill Does

Relating to designation of a beneficiary by a retiree of the Employees Retirement System of Texas.

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Bill History

2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online
Received from the House
2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Finance
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Passed to engrossment
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#2818
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Reported engrossed
2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online
Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Committee substitute considered in committee
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably as substituted
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Committee substitute considered in committee
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to designation of a beneficiary by a retiree of the Employees Retirement System of Texas.

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89(R) HB 5632 - Engrossed version - Bill Text

89R22043 RDR-F

By: Guillen

H.B. No. 5632

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to designation of a beneficiary by a retiree of the

Employees Retirement System of Texas.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 814.008, Government Code, is amended by

amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (e) to read as

follows:

(b) If the beneficiary designated at the time of the

retiree's retirement is the
current
spouse [
or former spouse
] of

the retiree
,
[
:

[
(1)
] the
current
spouse [
or former spouse
] must give

written, notarized consent to the change[
; or

[
(2)

a court with jurisdiction over the marriage must

have ordered the change
].

(e)

If at the time of the retiree's retirement, a

beneficiary designation names a former spouse as the beneficiary

for an annuity described in Subsection (a), the designation is

invalid unless the designation is made by the retiree after the date

of the divorce, or the divorce decree dissolving the marriage to the

former spouse designates the former spouse as the beneficiary.

SECTION 2. Section 814.008, Government Code, as amended by

this Act, applies to a retiree who makes a change of beneficiary on

or after the effective date of this Act, regardless of the date on

which the previous beneficiary designation was made.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.