By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1169 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the contracting for, and establishment and continuance 1-2 of, certain retirement programs for the benefit of employees of 1-3 municipal hospital authorities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 262, Health and Safety 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 262.035 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 262.035. RETIREMENT BENEFITS. If any authority is 1-8 created by the governing body of a municipality which has 1-9 established a municipal retirement system pursuant to Chapter 451, 1-10 Acts of the 72nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1991 (Article 6243n, 1-11 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), then the board of such authority 1-12 shall have the authority to provide and shall provide retirement 1-13 benefits for employees of the authority by participating in and 1-14 making all contributions required or authorized by the municipal 1-15 retirement system established by the municipality pursuant to 1-16 Chapter 451, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1991 1-17 (Article 6243n, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes). 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect July 1, 1993. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its 2-2 terms, and it is so enacted.