BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 2842 By: Turner, S. (Whitmire) Intergovernmental Relations 05-10-95 Senate Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND The Police Officers' Pension System pension plan provides for disability retirement benefits for members injured in the line of duty regardless of length of service and for members with non-duty related disabilities if they have in excess of 10 years of service. However, language in the statutes prohibits a member with excess of 20 years of service and is disabled from being eligible to receive a disability benefit. PURPOSE As proposed, H.B. 2842 deletes a provision relating to the eligibility for disability pensions for a member of a police officers' retirement system not otherwise eligible for a service pension. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 13, Article 6243g-3, V.T.C.S., as follows: Sec. 13. ELIGIBILITY FOR DISABILITY PENSION. Requires a member of a police officers' retirement system, rather than a member not otherwise eligible for a service pension, who suffers a disability resulting from an act which would normally occur while employed as a police officer, to be eligible for a duty-connected disability pension. (b) Makes a conforming change. SECTION 2. Emergency clause. Effective date: 90 days after adjournment.