(a) One year of service credit shall be granted for any fiscal year prior to September 1, 1958, in which the member has six or more months of contributory service, other than military service credit, if such contributory service is established on or before December 31, 1988.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (a) of this section, each full or partial month of contributory service performed shall count as one-twelfth of a year of creditable service.
(c) Military service credit is granted on a month-for-month basis, regardless of the date performed.
(d) A member who was granted 12 months retirement credit for service performed as a legislative employee during an entire legislative session prior to December 31, 1977, who subsequently withdrew the accumulated contributions, shall, upon reinstating the withdrawn account, receive credit under subsections (a) and (b) of this section.

Source Note: The provisions of this §71.1 adopted to be effective September 21, 1981, 6 TexReg 3427; amended to be effective March 15, 1988, 13 TexReg 1104; amended to be effective January 10, 2006, 31 TexReg 168