By:  Parker                                            S.B. No. 178
       73R1245 SOS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to participation in benefits from the Employees Retirement
    1-3  System of Texas for certain law enforcement officers.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 811.001(9), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7              (9)  "Law enforcement officer" means a member of the
    1-8  retirement system who has been commissioned as a law enforcement
    1-9  officer by the Department of Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic
   1-10  Beverage Commission, the former State Purchasing and General
   1-11  Services Commission<,> Capitol Area Security Force, the Texas State
   1-12  Board of Pharmacy, the Texas Racing Commission, or the Parks and
   1-13  Wildlife Department and who is recognized as a commissioned law
   1-14  enforcement officer by the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer
   1-15  Standards and Education.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  Section 814.104(b), Government Code, is amended
   1-17  to read as follows:
   1-18        (b)  A member who is at least 55 years old and who has at
   1-19  least 10 years of service credit as a commissioned peace officer
   1-20  engaged in criminal law enforcement activities of the Department of
   1-21  Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the former
   1-22  State Purchasing and General Services Commission Capitol Area
   1-23  Security Force, the Texas State Board of Pharmacy, the Texas Racing
   1-24  Commission, or the Parks and Wildlife Department, or as a custodial
    2-1  officer, is eligible to retire and receive a service retirement
    2-2  annuity.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  Section 815.505, Government Code, is amended to
    2-4  read as follows:
    2-5        Sec. 815.505.  Certification of Names of Law Enforcement and
    2-6  Custodial Officers.  As of the last day of each fiscal year, the
    2-7  Department of Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage
    2-8  Commission, the Parks and Wildlife Department, the Texas State
    2-9  Board of Pharmacy, the Texas Racing Commission <State Purchasing
   2-10  and General Services Commission>, and the Texas Department of
   2-11  Criminal Justice <Corrections> shall certify to the retirement
   2-12  system the names of employees and the amount of service each
   2-13  employee performed as a law enforcement officer or custodial
   2-14  officer during that fiscal year.
   2-15        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-16        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-18  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   2-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.