Sec. 844.504.  RETIREE OPTIONAL GROUP TERM LIFE BENEFIT.  If a retiree dies who was receiving a retirement annuity based on service for a subdivision that has elected to provide, and continues to provide, postretirement optional group term life coverage, a lump-sum death benefit is payable from the optional group term life fund in the amount of $5,000.
Added by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., 1st C.S., p. 212, ch. 18, Sec. 53, eff. Nov. 10, 1981.  Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 54.504 by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 245, Sec. 26, eff. Sept. 1, 1995;  Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 122, Sec. 43, eff. Dec. 31, 2001;  Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 621, Sec. 24, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.
Amended by: 
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 873 (H.B. 1587), Sec. 59, eff. January 1, 2008.