By:  Willis                                           H.B. No. 1625
       73R5002 GCH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to eligibility for service retirement under the Texas
    1-3  County and District Retirement System.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 844.207(c), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  A member shall be eligible, beginning on the first
    1-8  anniversary date of the person's membership, to retire and receive
    1-9  a service retirement annuity, if the member:
   1-10              (1)  is at least 60 years old and has at least 10 years
   1-11  of Section 844.207 credited service in the retirement system; or
   1-12              (2)  has sufficient years of Section 844.207 credited
   1-13  service in the retirement system that, when such number is added to
   1-14  the years of attained age of the member, produces a sum equal to or
   1-15  in excess of the number 75 <80>; or
   1-16              (3)  <if the member> is eligible for service retirement
   1-17  under any other provision of this subtitle.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.