By: Turner, S. H.B. No. 2308
73R6517 GCH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to eligibility for benefits payable by retirement systems
1-3 for police officers in certain municipalities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11(a), Chapter 76, Acts of the 50th
1-6 Legislature, 1947 (Article 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-7 is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (a) A person who becomes a member of the Pension System on
1-9 or after September 1, 1975, and who has been in the service of the
1-10 city police department for the period of twenty (20) years may
1-11 retire on or after July 1, 1993, <1988, at the age of fifty (50)
1-12 years> and shall be entitled to a retirement pension of an amount
1-13 equal to forty-five percent (45%) of his base salary per month,
1-14 plus an additional amount equal to two percent (2%) of his base
1-15 salary per month for each year of service in the police department
1-16 in excess of twenty (20) years, not to exceed a total pension equal
1-17 to eighty percent (80%) of base salary, such base salary to be the
1-18 base salary provided for the classified position in the police
1-19 department held by the member, provided that if the member has not
1-20 held the same classified position for three (3) years prior to the
1-21 date of retirement, the retirement pension shall be based on the
1-22 average monthly base salary of the member for three (3) years
1-23 preceding retirement. <Except as provided in Subsection (a-1) of
1-24 this section, no retirement pension may be paid to a member who has
2-1 not attained the age of fifty (50) years.>
2-2 SECTION 2. Section 11(a), Article 6243g-3, Revised Statutes,
2-3 is amended to read as follows:
2-4 (a) A member shall become eligible to receive a service
2-5 pension, after he has terminated employment, on or after July 1,
2-6 1993 <1988>, on the day he has 20 years of credited service <and
2-7 has attained age 50>.
2-8 SECTION 3. Section 12(a), Article 6243g-3, Revised Statutes,
2-9 is amended to read as follows:
2-10 (a) A member who has 20 years of credited service shall have
2-11 a vested right to a service pension, computed in accordance with
2-12 the provisions of this article in effect when he ceased to be an
2-13 employee<, payable beginning with the first month after his
2-14 attainment of age 50>.
2-15 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect July 1, 1993.
2-16 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
2-22 terms, and it is so enacted.