Title: Employees Retirement System records
Description: The Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS) oversees retirement and health benefits for State of Texas employees to provide for, protect, and enhance the economic well-being of members, retirees, and their beneficiaries through effectively managing benefit programs, using sound actuarial principles and available resources consistent with applicable laws. The programs offered by ERS include benefit payments for both service-related and disability-related retirements and benefits for survivors of active and retired members. These records document the interests, activities, and functions of ERS and consist of correspondence, memoranda, memorandums of understanding, contracts, statements, meeting files, copies of legislation, action plans, proposed resolutions, notes, drafts, studies, reports, clippings, statistics, plans, financial records, speeches, presentations, calendars, publications, agreements, newsletters, press releases, pamphlets, questionnaires, and a floppy disk, dating 1942-2016 and undated.
Collection: Employees Retirement System of Texas records
Creator: Employees Retirement System of Texas
Date range of creation: 1946 to 2016
Date range of creation: undated
Geographic coverage: Texas
Subject: Accounting
Subject: Employees Retirement System of Texas. Group Benefits Advisory Committee
Subject: Employees Retirement System of Texas
Subject: Employees Retirement System of Texas. Board of Trustees
Subject: Employees Retirement System of Texas. Group Insurance Advisory Committee
Subject: Employees Retirement System of Texas. Investment Advisory Committee
Subject: Employer-sponsored health insurance
Subject: Evaluation
Subject: Investments
Subject: Joint Coordinating Committee for State of Texas Investment Funds
Subject: Officials and employees
Subject: Pension trusts
Subject: Pensions
Subject: Retirement
Subject: Texas. Legislative Budget Board
Type: Agendas (administrative records)
Type: Agreements
Type: Calendars (documents by form)
Type: Clippings (information artifacts)
Type: Contracts
Type: Correspondence
Type: Financial records
Type: Legislative records
Type: Memorandums
Type: Minutes (administrative records)
Type: Newsletters
Type: Organizational charts
Type: Plans (reports)
Type: Press releases
Type: Publications (documents)
Type: Questionnaires
Type: Reports
Type: Resolutions (administrative records)
Type: Speeches (documents)
Type: Statistics
Arrangement: The entire records are organized into fourteen series: Board of Trustees minutes and exhibits, 1947-2016; Advisory Committee records, 1960-2000; Board of Trustees correspondence, 1966-1996; Agency correspondence, 1942-2009; Executive Director speeches and presentations, 1996-2004; Calendars, 2005-2014; Reports, 1956-2009; Project files, 1970-1993; Legislative records, 1947-1988; Financial records, 1969-1994; Organization charts, 1985-2016; Rules and regulations, 1974-1985; Press releases and publications, 1960-2005; Surveys, 1975-2006.
Copyright information: Most records created by Texas state agencies are not copyrighted. State records also include materials received by, not created by, state agencies. Copyright remains with the creator. The researcher is responsible for complying with U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.).
Access restrictions: Because of the possibility that portions of these records fall under Public Information Act exceptions including, but not limited to, records of members, annuitants, retirees, beneficiaries, and alternate payees under retirement plans administered by the Employees Retirement System of Texas (Texas Government Code, Section 815.503); information relating to competition or bidding (Texas Government Code, Section 552.104); and certain addresses, telephone numbers, and personal family information (Texas Government Code, Section 552.117), an archivist must review these records before they can be accessed for research. The records may be requested for research under the provisions of the Public Information Act (Texas Government Code, Chapter 552).
Size or duration: 70.06 cubic ft. and 444 KB (4 files)
TARO URL: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tslac/50070/tsl-50070.html
Language: English
