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.