By Puente H.B. No. 458 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the application for monthly survivor benefits under the 1-3 Teacher Retirement System of Texas for certain persons whose 1-4 remarriage disqualified them from those benefits. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 824, Government Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 824.4041 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 824.4041. BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN SURVIVING SPOUSES. (a) 1-9 A person is eligible to receive benefits under this section if the 1-10 person: 1-11 (1) is the designated beneficiary of a deceased 1-12 member; 1-13 (2) elected before September 1, 1980, to receive for 1-14 life a monthly benefit of $75 beginning at the age of 65; 1-15 (3) became ineligible for the benefits because the 1-16 person remarried before September 1, 1980; and 1-17 (4) reapplies for benefits under this section. 1-18 (b) The retirement system shall: 1-19 (1) verify whether a person is eligible to receive 1-20 benefits under this section; and 1-21 (2) if the person is eligible, make payments to the 1-22 person of a monthly benefit in the amount specified in Section 1-23 824.404. 1-24 (c) The retirement system shall make payment to a person 2-1 eligible to receive benefits under this section beginning with the 2-2 month after the month in which the person reapplies for benefits 2-3 under this section. 2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.