By Combs H.B. No. 2720 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas for 1-3 certain service performed for a county child welfare board. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 Section 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 813, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 813.510 to read as follows: 1-7 Section 813.510. CREDIT FOR COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD 1-8 SERVICE. (a) An eligible member may, before September 1, 1994, 1-9 claim service credit not otherwise creditable in the retirement 1-10 system for service performed before September 1, 1980, for a county 1-11 child welfare board. 1-12 (b) A member eligible to claim credit under this section is 1-13 one who: 1-14 (1) was a contributing member on August 31, 1993, 1-15 having performed at least 24 months of continuous state service as 1-16 of that date; and 1-17 (2) was subject during the period of welfare board 1-18 service to personnel rules of, and direct supervision by, the Texas 1-19 Department of Human Services or its predecessor. 1-20 (c) A member may claim credit under this section by 1-21 depositing with the retirement system in a lump sum: 1-22 (1) a contribution based on the member's monthly 1-23 salary during the period of service for a county child welfare 2-1 board and computed for the number of months for which credit is 2-2 sought at the rate currently required of employee members of the 2-3 system for new service; 2-4 (2) interest computed on the basis of the state fiscal 2-5 year at an annual rate of 10 percent from the date the service was 2-6 performed to the date of deposit; and 2-7 (3) any membership fees required of members of the 2-8 system during the period beginning on the date the service began 2-9 and ending on the date of deposit. 2-10 (d) The retirement system shall deposit the salary 2-11 contribution in the member's individual account in the employees 2-12 saving account, interest in the state accumulation account, and 2-13 membership fees in the expense account. 2-14 (e) The retirement system shall determine the amount to be 2-15 deposited in each case and may not grant service credit under this 2-16 section until the required amount has been paid in full. 2-17 (f) Service credit may not be established under this section 2-18 if the service is currently credited in another public retirement 2-19 system. 2-20 (g) This section expires October 1, 1994. 2-21 Section 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-22 Section 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.