85R25566 LED-D     By: Swanson H.B. No. 4203     Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4203:     By:  Alonzo C.S.H.B. No. 4203       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to rights to certain benefits accrued in the Texas County   and District Retirement System.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Sections 841.0091(b) and (c), Government Code,   are amended to read as follows:          (b)  Following a division described by Subsection (a), the   portion of the accrued benefit awarded the alternate payee is   considered the alternate payee's sole and separate property in   which the member has no interest.  The board of trustees by rule   shall ensure that [define and specify] the rights and   responsibilities of the alternate payee and the terms and features   of the benefit awarded the alternate payee under the order are equal   to the rights attained by the member or the member's beneficiary,   but in no event may the alternate payee vest in the accrued benefit   before the member vests or attain greater rights than are attained   by the member or the member's beneficiary.          (c)  Notwithstanding Section 804.101, the board of trustees   by rule shall [may] prescribe terms, equal to the terms prescribed   for a member, on which the interest awarded the alternate payee   under a qualified domestic relations order described by this   section may be transferred at the alternate payee's death.          SECTION 2.  For purposes of this Act, rules adopted under   Chapter 109, Title 34, Texas Administrative Code, effective January   1, 2018, are considered to comply with the changes in law made by   this Act.          SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act to Section   841.0091, Government Code, applies only to a qualified domestic   relations order entered or amended on or after January 1, 2018. A   qualified domestic relations order entered or amended before   January 1, 2018, is governed by the law as it existed immediately   before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in   effect for that purpose.          SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.