88R7437 JTZ-D     By: Vasut H.B. No. 1985       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the service credit used in calculating longevity pay   for certain judges and justices with prior full-time service as an   associate judge.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 659.012(b), Government Code, is amended   to read as follows:          (b)  A judge or justice for whom the amount of a state base   salary is prescribed by Subsection (a) is entitled to an annual   salary from the state in the amount equal to:                (1)  110 percent of the state base salary paid in   accordance with Subsection (a) for the judge's or justice's   position, beginning with the pay period that begins after the judge   or justice accrues four years of:                      (A)  contributing service credit in the Judicial   Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement   System of Texas Plan Two;                      (B)  service as a judge or a full-time associate   judge of a district court, statutory county court, multicounty   statutory county court, or statutory probate court; or                      (C)  combined contributing service credit and   service as provided by Paragraphs (A) and (B); and                (2)  120 percent of the state base salary paid in   accordance with Subsection (a) for the judge's or justice's   position, beginning with the pay period that begins after the judge   or justice accrues eight years of:                      (A)  contributing service credit in the Judicial   Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement   System of Texas Plan Two;                      (B)  service as a judge or a full-time associate   judge of a district court, statutory county court, multicounty   statutory county court, or statutory probate court; or                      (C)  combined contributing service credit and   service as provided by Paragraphs (A) and (B).          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.