By:  Krusee                                           H.B. No. 1710
       73R6103 GCH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to eligibility for service retirement of members of the
    1-3  elected class of the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 814.102, Government Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 814.102.  ELIGIBILITY OF ELECTED MEMBERS FOR SERVICE
    1-8  RETIREMENT.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b) or by rule
    1-9  adopted under Section 813.304(d) or Section 803.202(2), a member
   1-10  who has service credit in the elected class of membership<,> is
   1-11  eligible to retire and receive a service retirement annuity if the
   1-12  member:
   1-13              (1)  is at least 60 years old and has 8 years of
   1-14  service credit in that class; or
   1-15              (2)  is at least 50 years old and has 12 years of
   1-16  service credit in that class.
   1-17        (b)  A member who has service credit in the elected class of
   1-18  membership and whose membership in that class first began after
   1-19  December 31, 1992, is eligible to retire and receive a service
   1-20  retirement annuity if the member:
   1-21              (1)  is at least 60 years old and has 10 years of
   1-22  service credit in the retirement system; or
   1-23              (2)  is at least 55 years old and has 12 years of
   1-24  service credit in the retirement system.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.