HB 5015 Texas House · 89th Legislature (2025)

Relating to participation by certain municipal retirement systems in the proportionate retirement program.

HB 5015 allows specific municipal retirement systems to join Texas' proportionate retirement program. It applies only to retirement systems for general municipal employees in cities with populations between 900,000 and 1,050,000, plus certain state systems like the Employees Retirement System of Texas and Teacher Retirement System. The bill defines eligibility criteria but does not change benefit calculations or funding mechanisms. It takes effect September 1, 2025.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Apr 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Apr 3, 2025 Last action May 5, 2025

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What changed between versions

Introduced → Engrossed · 3 edits · Apr 30, 2025

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted and cleaned up to remove extraneous markup and spacing issues while preserving the core legislative content. No substantive policy changes were made to the bill's provisions regarding retirement system participation.

Scope change

No change in scope or applicability; the bill remains focused on participation by certain municipal retirement systems in the proportionate retirement program.

TECHNICAL

Removed redundant header information and formatting artifacts while keeping the bill number and sponsor information intact.

Cleaned up spacing and line breaks in the bill text to improve readability without altering legal content.

SCOPE

The substantive provisions regarding which retirement systems are eligible for the program remain exactly the same.

Floor votes · House Apr 29, 2025

How they voted

146–0

Passed

Total votes 146

Apr 29, 2025

D Democratic59

59 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican87

87 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

May 5, 2025

Committee

Referred to Finance

upper

May 5, 2025

Introduced

Read first time

upper

Apr 30, 2025

Introduced

Received from the House

upper

Apr 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed

lower

Apr 29, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed to engrossment

lower

Apr 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee report sent to Calendars

lower

Apr 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

Transferred to Calendars Committee

lower

Apr 22, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee report distributed

lower

Apr 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

lower

Apr 17, 2025

Committee

Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent

lower

Apr 14, 2025

Lower · Passed

Left pending in committee

lower

Apr 14, 2025

Lower · Passed

Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

lower

Apr 3, 2025

Committee

Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

lower

Apr 3, 2025

Introduced

Read first time

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors