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.