By: Bivins S.B. No. 321
73R2609 GCH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to eligibility for service retirement of members of the
1-3 elected class of the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 814.102, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 814.102. ELIGIBILITY OF ELECTED MEMBERS FOR SERVICE
1-8 RETIREMENT. Except as provided by rule adopted under Section
1-9 813.304(d) or Section 803.202(2), a member who has service credit
1-10 in the elected class of membership<,> is eligible to retire and
1-11 receive a service retirement annuity if the member:
1-12 (1) is at least 60 years old and has 10 <8> years of
1-13 service credit in the retirement system <that class>; or
1-14 (2) is at least 55 <50> years old and has 12 years of
1-15 service credit in the retirement system <that class>.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.