By Carter H.B. No. 2591 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to purchase of service credit in the Teacher Retirement 1-3 System of Texas by vocational teachers. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Title 110B Public Retirement Systems, Subtitle D. 1-6 Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Chapter 33, Creditable Service, 1-7 is amended by adding Subchapter G. Establishment of Work Credit to 1-8 read as follows: 1-9 Sec. 33.405(a) The retirement system shall grant to each 1-10 member eligible as provided by this section service credit in the 1-11 retirement system for two years of work experience required for 1-12 certification of certain vocational teachers. 1-13 (b) A member is eligible to receive credit under this 1-14 section is one who: 1-15 (1) is employed by a public school as a vocational 1-16 teacher; 1-17 (2) is fully certified by the Texas Education Agency 1-18 and has at least 14 semester hours of vocational education courses 1-19 from an institution of higher education; and 1-20 (3) has at least 10 years of service credit in the 1-21 retirement system for actual service in the public schools. 1-22 (c) The retirement system shall determine the amount of 1-23 money to be deposited by a member under this section. The system 2-1 may not provide benefits based on the service until the determined 2-2 amount has been fully paid. 2-3 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.