OPTIONAL OCCUPATIONAL DISABILITY RETIREMENT ANNUITY

(a) Instead of the standard occupational disability retirement annuity payable under Section 854.408, a member retiring for disability may elect to receive an optional occupational disability retirement annuity under this section. (b) An optional occupational disability retirement annuity is payable throughout the life of the retiree and is actuarially adjusted from the standard occupational disability retirement annuity to its actuarial equivalent under the option selected under Subsection (c). (c) An eligible person may select an optional annuity under Section 854.104(c). (d) An option under Subsection (c) applies to both prior and current service annuities, except that prior service annuities are subject to reduction under Section 855.308(f). (e) To select an optional occupational disability retirement annuity, a member or retiree must make the selection and designate a beneficiary on a form prescribed by and filed with the retirement system before the 31st day after the effective date of retirement. (f) Repealed by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 991 (S.B. 1337), Sec. 28, eff. January 1, 2020. (g) If a person who retires after August 31, 1997, elects a reduced retirement annuity that is payable until the death of the last to die of the retiree and a person designated under Subsection (e), and if the retiree survives the other person, the monthly payments to the retiree will be increased to the amounts that would have been payable if the retiree at the time of retirement had elected to receive an annuity payable only during the retiree's life, and adjustments had been made for any applicable postretirement increases in that benefit. The increased benefit becomes payable the month after the month in which the person designated under Subsection (e) dies and continues until the retiree dies.