(a) The board of trustees shall develop and maintain a precedent manual relating to the enrollment and claims determinations under Section 1551.352 and appeals of those determinations. The precedent manual:
- (1) must be composed of precedent-establishing determinations made by the board, executive director, or other staff, initially and on appeal, and include examples of previous determinations that are consistent with the identified precedent; and
- (2) may include other information identified by the board.
- (b) The board of trustees shall make the precedent manual available to appropriate staff and to employees, participants, annuitants, and covered dependents.
- (c) The board of trustees and staff involved in the claims appeal process are not bound by a decision in the manual.
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 530 (S.B. 301), Sec. 12, eff. September 1, 2017.