74R5366 GCH-D
          By Junell                                              H.B. No. 384
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 384:
          By Telford                                         C.S.H.B. No. 384
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to eligibility for service retirement from the Employees
    1-3  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.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.