By Greenberg 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 program 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. (a) 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 1-16 Statutes. 1-17 (b) The board of an authority, other than an authority 1-18 described in subsection (a) above, may provide retirement benefits 1-19 for employees of such authority by: 1-20 (1) establishing or administering a retirement 1-21 program; or 1-22 (2) electing to participate in the Texas 1-23 Municipal Retirement System or in any other municipal retirement 2-1 system in which the municipality creating the authority is eligible 2-2 to participate. 2-3 SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes 2-4 effect _____________. 2-5 SECTION 3. EMERGENCY CLAUSE. The importance of this 2-6 legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both 2-7 houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that 2-8 the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.