By Greenberg, Naishtat                                H.B. No. 2797
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2797:
          By Marchant                                       C.S.H.B. No. 2797
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the contracting for, and establishment and continuance
    1-3  of, certain retirement programs for the benefit of employees of
    1-4  municipal hospital authorities.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 262 of the Health and Safety Code is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 262.035 to read as follows:
    1-8        Section 262.035.  If any authority is created by the
    1-9  governing body of a municipality which has established a municipal
   1-10  retirement system pursuant to Article 6243n, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-11  Statutes, then the board of such authority shall have the authority
   1-12  to, and shall provide retirement benefits for, employees of such
   1-13  authority by participating in and making all contributions required
   1-14  or authorized by the municipal retirement system established by
   1-15  such municipality pursuant to Article 6243n, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-16  Statutes.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect July 1,
   1-18  1993.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY CLAUSE.  The importance of this
   1-20  legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both
   1-21  houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that
   1-22  the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.