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 program 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.  Chapter 262 of the Health and Safety Code is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 262.035 to read as follows:
    1-7        Section 262.035.  (a)  If any authority is created by the
    1-8  governing body of a municipality which has established a municipal
    1-9  retirement system pursuant to Article 6243n, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-10  Statutes, then the board of such authority shall have the authority
   1-11  to, and shall, provide retirement benefits for employees of such
   1-12  authority by participating in and making all contributions required
   1-13  or authorized by the municipal retirement system established by
   1-14  such municipality pursuant to Article 6243n, Vernon's Texas
   1-15  Statutes.
   1-16        (b)  The board of an authority, other than an authority
   1-17  described in subsection (a) above, may provide retirement benefits
   1-18  for employees of such authority by:
   1-19              (1)  establishing or administering a retirement
   1-20  program; or
   1-21              (2)  electing to participate in the Texas Municipal
   1-22  Retirement System or in any other municipal retirement system in
   1-23  which the municipality creating the authority is eligible to
    2-1  participate.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect
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    2-4        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.