- (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.
- (b) The member's employer is responsible for determining whether a member's leave meets the definition of "developmental leave" in Texas Civil Statutes, Title 110B, §33.402(b).
- (c) Credit granted for developmental leave may not exceed two school years.
- (d) To obtain each school year of credit for developmental leave, the member must for school years prior to 1979-1980 make a deposit equal to 14.15% of the member's annual compensation rate during the last school year of creditable service which preceded the developmental leave. For the school years 1979-1980 through 1982-1983, the member must make a deposit equal to 15.15% of the member's annual compensation rate during the last school year of creditable service which preceded the developmental leave. For the school years 1983-1984 and 1984-1985 only, the percentage is 13.1% rather than 15.15%. For the school year 1985-1986 and years after, the percentage is 14.4%. 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.