By:  Parker                                            S.B. No. 178
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to participation in benefits from the Employees Retirement
    1-2  System of Texas for certain law enforcement officers.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subdivision (9), Section 811.001, Government
    1-5  Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6              (9)  "Law enforcement officer" means a member of the
    1-7  retirement system who has been commissioned as a law enforcement
    1-8  officer by the Department of Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic
    1-9  Beverage Commission, the former State Purchasing and General
   1-10  Services Commission<,> Capitol Area Security Force, the State Board
   1-11  of Pharmacy, the Texas Racing Commission, or the Parks and Wildlife
   1-12  Department and who is recognized as a commissioned law enforcement
   1-13  officer by the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and
   1-14  Education.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Subsection (b), Section 814.104, Government Code,
   1-16  is amended to read as follows:
   1-17        (b)  A member who is at least 55 years old and who has at
   1-18  least 10 years of service credit as a commissioned peace officer
   1-19  engaged in criminal law enforcement activities of the Department of
   1-20  Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the former
   1-21  State Purchasing and General Services Commission Capitol Area
   1-22  Security Force, the State Board of Pharmacy, the Texas Racing
   1-23  Commission, or the Parks and Wildlife Department, or as a custodial
   1-24  officer, is eligible to retire and receive a service retirement
    2-1  annuity.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  Section 815.505, Government Code, is amended to
    2-3  read as follows:
    2-4        Sec. 815.505.  Certification of Names of Law Enforcement and
    2-5  Custodial Officers.  As of the last day of each fiscal year, the
    2-6  Department of Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage
    2-7  Commission, the Parks and Wildlife Department, the State Board of
    2-8  Pharmacy, the Texas Racing Commission <Purchasing and General
    2-9  Services Commission>, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
   2-10  <Corrections> shall certify to the retirement system the names of
   2-11  employees and the amount of service each employee performed as a
   2-12  law enforcement officer or custodial officer during that fiscal
   2-13  year.
   2-14        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-15        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.