By Junell                                              H.B. No. 384
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to service creditable in and eligibility for service
    1-3  retirement from the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 814.104(b), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  A member who is at least 55 years old and who has at
    1-8  least 10 years of service credit as a commissioned peace officer
    1-9  engaged in criminal law enforcement activities of the Department of
   1-10  Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the State
   1-11  Purchasing and General Services Commission Capitol Area Security
   1-12  Force, or the Parks and Wildlife Department, as an employee of the
   1-13  Railroad Commission of Texas who is licensed by the Commission on
   1-14  Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education and has served at
   1-15  least five years as an investigator for the oil field theft
   1-16  detection division, or as a custodial officer, is eligible to
   1-17  retire and receive a service retirement annuity.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Section 813.001, Government Code, is amended to
   1-19  read as follows:
   1-20        Sec. 813.001.  TYPES OF CREDITABLE SERVICE.  The types of
   1-21  service creditable in the retirement system are membership service,
   1-22  <and> military service, and equivalent membership service.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  Section 813.401, Government Code, is amended to
   1-24  read as follows:
    2-1        Sec. 813.401.  SERVICE CREDITABLE IN ELECTED CLASS.  Service
    2-2  creditable in the elected class of membership is:
    2-3              (1)  membership service in an office included in that
    2-4  class; <and>
    2-5              (2)  military service established as provided by
    2-6  Subchapter D; and
    2-7              (3)  equivalent membership service specifically made
    2-8  creditable in that class.
    2-9        SECTION 4.  Section 813.404, Government Code, is amended to
   2-10  read as follows:
   2-11        Sec. 813.404.  CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SERVICE NOT PREVIOUSLY
   2-12  ESTABLISHED.  For each month of membership, <or> military, or
   2-13  equivalent membership service not previously credited in the
   2-14  retirement system, a member claiming credit in the elected class
   2-15  shall pay a contribution in an amount equal to the greater of:
   2-16              (1)  eight percent of the monthly salary paid to
   2-17  members of the legislature at the time the credit is established;
   2-18  or
   2-19              (2)  six percent of the monthly state salary paid to a
   2-20  person who holds, at the time the credit is established, the office
   2-21  for which credit is sought.
   2-22        SECTION 5.  Subchapter E, Chapter 813, Government Code, is
   2-23  amended by adding Section 813.406 to read as follows:
   2-24        Sec. 813.406.  COUNTY SERVICE.  (a)  A member of the elected
   2-25  class of membership who meets a service requirement provided by
   2-26  Section 814.102 for retirement at an attained age may establish
   2-27  equivalent membership service credit in that class for service
    3-1  performed as an elected officer of a county in this state.
    3-2        (b)  In addition to the contribution required by Section
    3-3  813.404, a member establishing service credit under this section
    3-4  must pay interest computed on the basis of the state fiscal year at
    3-5  an annual rate of 10 percent of the contribution from the time the
    3-6  service was performed to the date of deposit.
    3-7        (c)  A member may not establish more than 24 months of
    3-8  service credit under this section.  Credit may not be established
    3-9  under this section if the same service is credited in another
   3-10  public retirement system.
   3-11        (d)  The retirement system may require members applying for
   3-12  credit under this section to submit any information the system
   3-13  considers necessary to enable it to determine the amount of service
   3-14  or amounts of required contributions.
   3-15        SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   3-16        SECTION 7.  The importance of this legislation and the
   3-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.