{"id":3253,"date":"2011-05-05T15:55:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trta.org\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2011-05-05T15:55:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:55:33","slug":"trta-action-alert-we-need-your-help-to-protect-trs-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trta.org\/es\/trta-action-alert-we-need-your-help-to-protect-trs-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"TRTA Action Alert: We Need Your Help to Protect TRS Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: x-large;\"><strong>TRTA Action Alert&#8211;Contact Your Senator<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Senate may take up a \u201cfiscal-matters\u201d bill tomorrow dealing with TRS and the TRS-Care fund. Senator Robert Duncan has authored SB 1666, SB 1667, and SB 1671. These bills all address issues pertaining to TRS. These bills may also be used to move a funding plan forward that is designed to maintain TRS-Care health insurance premiums in the coming biennium.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votervoice.net\/Groups\/TRTA\/Advocacy\/?IssueID=24991&amp;SiteID=-1\">click the link below<\/a> and send an email to your Senator asking them to support Senator Robert Duncan\u2019s TRS funding plan. If you would like to call your Senator, please use the \u201cTRTA Call Your Legislator Hotline: 1.888.674.3788. Ask your Senator to support Senator Duncan\u2019s TRS funding plan and keep retiree health care costs from increasing 80 percent .\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Again, the bills that Senator Duncan may use for this important action may come up tomorrow (Friday, May 6, 2011). Senator Duncan\u2019s plan will fund TRS-Care in a way that helps prevent a major premium increase for retirees this coming biennium. This plan will also restore over $100 million in funding to the TRS pension trust fund. We must support Senator Duncan and ask the Senate to vote for retired public education employees. (Bills that may be used for this effort include SB 1666, SB 1667, and SB 1671. It is most likely that SB 1671, which should come up tomorrow, is the target bill for Senator Duncan\u2019s work to protect TRS and TRS-Care)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: x-large;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.votervoice.net\/Groups\/TRTA\/Advocacy\/?IssueID=24991&amp;SiteID=-1\">Please Email Your Senator Right NOW! Click here to send this vital email. <\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><\/p>\n<p>You may also want to call your Senator on Friday and ask them to support Senator Duncan\u2019s efforts to protect the TRS pension and health care programs. Please use the \u201cTRTA Call Your Legislator Hotline: 1.888.674.3788.\u201d The Capitol Switchboard office hours are from 8 AM to 5 PM M-F. <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Thank you for your support on short notice. Your emails are making a BIG difference in both the Senate and the House. As a quick update, the House fiscal matters bill, and the Gooden\/Villarreal amendments have not come up for a vote and these bills have been postponed. It now may be next week before the House takes up these bills. We will keep you updated.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Thank you again for all you are doing to help. If you are not a member, but would like to join TRTA in our efforts to protect your TRS pension plan and TRS-Care health insurance program, please contact our office at 1.800.880.1650 and we will gladly answer any questions you may have.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRTA Action Alert&#8211;Contact Your Senator &nbsp; The Senate may take up a \u201cfiscal-matters\u201d bill tomorrow dealing with TRS and the TRS-Care fund. Senator Robert Duncan has authored SB 1666, SB 1667, and SB 1671. These bills all address issues pertaining to TRS. 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