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.