By Puente                                              H.B. No. 139
       74R1768 GCH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to monthly benefits for surviving spouses of deceased
    1-3  members of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 824.4041(b), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  The retirement system shall:
    1-8              (1)  verify whether a person is eligible to receive
    1-9  benefits under this section;
   1-10              (2)  determine the number of months that the person was
   1-11  65 years of age or older and did not receive the monthly survivor
   1-12  benefit during the period beginning on the date the person
   1-13  remarried, if before August 31, 1979, and ending August 31, 1979,
   1-14  and multiply that number by $75;
   1-15              (3)  determine the number of months that the person was
   1-16  65 years of age or older and did not receive the monthly survivor
   1-17  benefit during the period beginning on the date the person
   1-18  remarried or September 1, 1979, whichever date is later, and ending
   1-19  on the last day of the month in which the person is verified as
   1-20  eligible for benefits under this section, and multiply that number
   1-21  by $100;
   1-22              (4)  make payable to the eligible person in a lump sum
   1-23  an amount equal to the amount computed under Subdivision (2) plus
   1-24  the amount computed under Subdivision (3); and
    2-1              (5) <(2)>  if the person is eligible, make payments to
    2-2  the person of a monthly benefit in the amount specified in Section
    2-3  824.404.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  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,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.