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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas House Bill 2087 requires annual cost-of-living adjustments for Teacher Retirement System benefits
Last action · March 14, 2025: Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial ServicesSponsor: Mando Martinez
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What This Bill Proposed
House Bill 2087 requires the Teacher Retirement System of Texas to provide annual cost-of-living increases for service retirement, disability retirement, and death benefits starting January 1, 2026. The adjustment rate matches the annual percentage increase in the . Benefit increases depend on the retirement system maintaining actuarial soundness and having sufficient funds available.
Retired teachers, disabled educators, and survivor beneficiaries receive adjusted benefit payments tied to inflation metrics, subject to the pension fund's financial condition and available reserves.
- The Teacher Retirement System of Texas administers pensions and health benefit programs for public education employees across the state. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Teacher Retirement System of Texas retirees
Service and disability retirement benefit amounts are adjusted annually to reflect inflation, subject to fund availability.
Death benefit beneficiaries
Death benefit payouts are subject to annual cost-of-living adjustments based on inflation metrics.
Teacher Retirement System of Texas board of trustees
The board is required to annually determine adjustment rates, assess actuarial soundness, and compute partial rates when funding is limited.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is eligible for the cost-of-living adjustments under House Bill 2087?
How is the adjustment rate determined each year?
What happens if the retirement system does not have enough money to pay the full increase?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
3 actions- Mar 14, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
- Mar 14, 2025HouseIntroducedRead first time
- Jan 24, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
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Mandatory CPI-W Indexing for TRS Benefits
The bill establishes an automatic annual adjustment tied directly to federal social security inflation measures, conditional upon fund soundness.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz35Current news / social attention level
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