1. (a) A member with five years of membership service may receive retirement credit for developmental leave if the leave has been approved as developmental leave in advance by the member's employer and notice of intent to take the leave has been filed with the system on or before the date a member begins the leave.
2. (b) The member's employer is responsible for determining whether a member's leave meets the definition of "developmental leave" in Texas Government Code, §823.402(b).
3. (c) Credit granted for developmental leave may not exceed two school years.
4. (d) To obtain service credit for each year of developmental leave, the member must deposit an amount equal to the current member and state contributions based on the member's annual compensation rate during the last school year of creditable service which preceded the developmental leave. Persons making deposits for developmental leave credit must be employed in the public schools of Texas at the time of the deposit. A member must make the deposits for developmental leave credit, whether by lump sum or installment payments, by the end of the first creditable school year of service after taking developmental leave. A member who does not make deposits by the end of that year loses eligibility for purchasing credit for any preceding developmental leave.

Source Note:The provisions of this §25.151 adopted to be effective September 11, 1977, 2 TexReg 3280; amended to be effective September 26, 1979, 4 TexReg 3305; amended to be effective October 16, 1984, 9 TexReg 5092; amended to be effective January 7, 1986, 10 TexReg 4950; amended to be effective September 1, 1992, 17 TexReg 5120; amended to be effective June 15, 1999, 24 TexReg 4459; amended to be effective March 12, 2003, 28 TexReg 2099.