By Junell                                              H.B. No. 384
       74R1392 GCH-D
                                 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 a commissioned
   1-13  peace officer of the Railroad Commission of Texas engaged in
   1-14  criminal investigations, or as a custodial officer, is eligible to
   1-15  retire and receive a service retirement annuity.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.