By Mowery H.B. No. 382
74R2120 GCH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to state employee contributions to the federal old age and
1-3 survivors insurance program.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 606.064, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 606.064. EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS <BY STATE AGENCY>. (a)
1-8 Each state employee, including a judge paid by the state, for whom
1-9 an agreement for social security coverage is in effect under this
1-10 subchapter shall pay contributions on wages in the amount of the
1-11 employee tax. <The state shall pay all contributions on wages for
1-12 social security coverage of a state employee except:>
1-13 <(1) as provided by Section 606.065; or>
1-14 <(2) the amount of the employee tax in excess of 5.85
1-15 percent of wages computed on a wage base of $16,500 in a calendar
1-16 year.>
1-17 (b) The obligation provided by this section is a condition
1-18 of employment or of holding office. <The legislature may provide
1-19 in the General Appropriations Act for a state contribution in
1-20 excess of the amount provided in Subsection (a)(2).>
1-21 <(c) A state employee is obligated to pay only the
1-22 difference between the amount the legislature provides and the
1-23 amount required by federal law.>
1-24 <(d) The contribution made by the state shall be paid from
2-1 the same fund from which an employee receives compensation.>
2-2 <(e) The comptroller may prorate the state's expected
2-3 contribution for an employee's employee tax over the portion of the
2-4 calendar year that the employee's salary is subject to the Federal
2-5 Insurance Contributions Act to equalize the employee's monthly
2-6 contributions during the portion of the year that the employee's
2-7 salary is subject to Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes.>
2-8 SECTION 2. Section 606.067(a), Government Code, is amended
2-9 to read as follows:
2-10 (a) For a state employee who is paid from the state
2-11 treasury, the legislature shall appropriate, from the same fund
2-12 from which the employee is paid, an amount equal to the <total of
2-13 the> state's contributions under Section 606.063 <and Section
2-14 606.064 or 606.065>.
2-15 SECTION 3. Section 606.065, Government Code, is repealed.
2-16 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-17 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.